CVE-2016-6376 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (wIPS) feature of Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) across multiple versions. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can trigger a device restart by sending a specially crafted wIPS packet. Rated as Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires network adjacency, but can lead to a complete loss of availability. The potential impact is a denial of service, causing the WLC to restart. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is there publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low profile in the threat landscape.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0_baseCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_controller:3.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1.59.24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_controller:3.1.59.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1.105.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_controller:3.1.105.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1.111.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_controller:3.1.111.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.2.78.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wireless_lan_controller:3.2.78.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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