High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 3, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-1817
CVE-2019-1817
Description
A vulnerability in the web proxy functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of HTTP and HTTPS requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed HTTP or HTTPS request to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a restart of the web proxy process, resulting in a temporary DoS condition.
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Affected products
6cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:11.5.1-fcs-115:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:11.5.1-fcs-115:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:11.5.1-fcs-124:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:11.5.1-fcs-125:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:web_security_appliance:11.7.0-fcs-334:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
- Range: unspecified
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