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CVE-2016-1385

The XML parser in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software through 9.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (instability, memory consumption, or device reload) by leveraging (1) administrative access or (2) Clientless SSL VPN access to provide a crafted XML document, aka Bug ID CSCut14209.

Security Impact Summary

This vulnerability carries a MEDIUM severity rating with a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.5, indicating it can be exploited remotely over the network with relatively low complexity without requiring user interaction requiring only low-level privileges . The vulnerability impacts and availability (service disruption) for affected systems. Impacting 2 products from cisco, from cisco organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

First disclosed in 2016, this vulnerability was reported during a period defined by widespread IoT adoption challenges, mobile security concerns, and the emergence of advanced persistent threat (APT) techniques. Contemporary mitigation strategies focused on secure development practices and third-party component vetting.

Published

2016-05-26T15:59:01.463

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.0	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.1.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.1.11	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.2.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.2.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.3.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.3.9	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.4.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.4.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.4.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.4.9	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.5.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.15	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.22	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.23	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.26	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.28	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.4.7.29	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.7	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.14	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.17	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.18	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.19	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.21	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.5.1.24	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.10	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.12	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.13	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.14	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.6.1.17	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.7	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.11	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.13	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.16	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	8.7.1.17	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.2.10	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.3.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.3.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.7	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.17	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.20	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.24	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.26	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.29	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.33	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.35	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.0.4.37	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.1.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.2.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.3.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.4.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.5.10	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.5.12	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.5.15	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.5.21	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.6.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.6.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.6.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.6.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.1.6.10	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2\(0.0\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2\(0.104\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2\(3.1\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.2.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.2.7	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.2.8	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.3.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.3.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.4.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.2.4.4	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3\(1.50\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3\(1.105\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3\(2.100\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3\(2.243\)	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.1.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.2.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.3.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.3.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.3.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.3.6	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.3.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.0.115	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.1.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.1.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.1.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.1.5	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.2	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.4.2.3	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.5.1	Yes
Operating System	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance_software	9.5.2	Yes
Hardware	cisco	adaptive_security_appliance	*	No

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160517-asa-xml Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035976 ([email protected])
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160517-asa-xml Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035976 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For cisco's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.