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CVE-2017-6721

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6721 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to restart the WAASNET process by sending specially crafted fragmented TCP packets. This medium-severity vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3, indicating low attack complexity and no user interaction required, with the primary impact being a loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE. Affected releases include 6.3(1), with fixes available in versions 6.3(0.143), 6.2(3c)6, and 6.2(3.22).

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.3\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:wide_area_application_services:6.3\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0220 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-20170621-waas
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/99200
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038747
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry