CVE-2016-6360
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2016-10-28
- WeaknessCWE-20
Am I affected?
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Description
A vulnerability in Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) and Web Security Appliances (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a partial denial of service (DoS) condition due to the AMP process unexpectedly restarting. Affected Products: Cisco AsyncOS Software for Email Security Appliances (ESA) versions 9.5 and later up to the first fixed release, Cisco AsyncOS Software for Web Security Appliances (WSA) all versions prior to the first fixed release. More Information: CSCux56406, CSCux59928. Known Affected Releases: 9.6.0-051 9.7.0-125 8.8.0-085 9.5.0-444 WSA10.0.0-000. Known Fixed Releases: 9.7.1-066 WSA10.0.0-233.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2016-10-2810:59CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2016-6360?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2016-6360?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | = 8.8.0-085 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.0 | = 9.0.0-193 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.0 | = 9.0_base | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.1 | = 9.1.0-000 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.1 | = 9.1.0-070 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.1 | = 9.1_base | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.5 | = 9.5.0-235 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.5 | = 9.5.0-284 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.5 | = 9.5.0-444 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.5 | = 9.5_base | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.5 | = 9.5.0-000 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.5 | = 9.5.0-201 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.6 | = 9.6.0-000 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.6 | = 9.6.0-042 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.6 | = 9.6.0-051 | no fix published | NVD |
| 9.7 | = 9.7.0-125 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
Advisories and patches
- tools.cisco.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.07.5read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.05read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-20read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score2.2 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Published
- 2016-10-28
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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