Cisco Small Business 500 Series Switches Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based GUI of the Cisco Small Business 500 Series Stackable Managed Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device.

The vulnerability is due to insufficient handling of HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected device.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate this vulnerability are available.

This advisory is available at the following link: http://ift.tt/1nqV1bk

from Cisco Security Advisory http://ift.tt/1nqV1bk