CVE-2016-6436: Cisco Hostscan Engine

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in HostScan Engine 3.0.08062 through 3.1.14018 in the Cisco Host Scan package, as used in ASA Web VPN, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted URL, aka Bug ID CSCuz14682.

Affected products

• Cisco Hostscan Engine: version 3.0.08062 only; version 3.0.08066 only; version 3.1.01065 only; version 3.1.02016 only; version 3.1.02026 only; version 3.1.02040 only; …

Published 2016-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.