Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco IPS Authentication Manager Process

CVE-2013-5497 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The authentication manager process in the web framework in Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) does not properly handle user tokens, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (intermittent MainApp hang) via a crafted management-interface connection request, aka Bug ID CSCuf20148.

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