CVE-2016-1369: Cisco ASA With Firepower Services

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) 5585-X FirePOWER Security Services Processor (SSP) module for Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services 5.3.1 through 6.0.0 misconfigures kernel logging, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption, and inspection outage or module outage) via a flood of crafted IP traffic, aka Bug ID CSCux19922.

Affected products

• Cisco ASA With Firepower Services: version 5.3.1 only; version 5.3.1.1 only; version 5.4.0 only; version 5.4.0.1 only; version 5.4.0.2 only; version 5.4.0.3 only; …

Published 2016-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.