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CVE-2015-6321

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6321 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Content Security Management Appliance (SMA), and Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices running specific AsyncOS versions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a flood of TCP packets, leading to excessive memory consumption and device unavailability. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, though it did receive some media coverage at the time of disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.6.0-623CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:5.6.0-623:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.0-000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:6.0.0-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.5.0-000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:7.5.0-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.5.0-825CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:7.5.0-825:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.5.1-000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:7.5.1-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0276 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151104-aos
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1034060
securitytracker.com / id/1034061