Wide Area Application Services
CVE-2013-3443
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Impact | CVSS score of 10.0 (CRITICAL). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity. EPSS exploitation probability: 7.92%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the critical-severity affected system. |
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The web service framework in Cisco WAAS Software 4.x and 5.x before 5.0.3e, 5.1.x before 5.1.1c, and 5.2.x before 5.2.1 in a Central Manager (CM) configuration allows remote attackers to execute. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-20. The web service framework in Cisco WAAS Software 4.x and 5.x before 5.0.3e, 5.1.x before 5.1.1c, and 5.2.x before 5.2.1 in a Central Manager (CM) configuration allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted POST request, aka Bug ID CSCuh26626. Affected products include: Cisco Wide Area Application Services. Version information: before 5.0.3.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
The web service framework in Cisco WAAS Software 4.x and 5.x before 5.0.3e, 5.1.x before 5.1.1c, and 5.2.x before 5.2.1 in a Central Manager (CM) configuration allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted POST request, aka Bug ID CSCuh26626.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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Attack Technique
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 5.1.1 before 5.1.1e, when SharePoint prefetch optimization is enabled, allow
The web framework in Cisco WAAS Software before 4.x and 5.x before 5.0.3e, 5.1.x before 5.1.1c, and 5.2.x before 5.2.1;
cifs-ao in the CIFS optimization functionality on Cisco Wide Area Application Service (WAAS) and Virtual WAAS (vWAAS) de
A vulnerability in SMART-SSL Accelerator functionality for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 6.2.1, 6.2.1a, an
A vulnerability in the Disk Check Tool (disk-check.sh) for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software could al
A vulnerability in the Akamai Connect feature of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Appliances could allow an u
A vulnerability in the SSL session cache management of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) could allow an unauth
A vulnerability in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to
A vulnerability in the HTTP web interface for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) could allow an unauthenticated
A vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol of Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) could allow an
A vulnerability in the ingress processing of fragmented TCP packets by Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) could
A vulnerability in the Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) accelerator feature for the Cisco Wide Area Application
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