CVE-2016-9220
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility...
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the connection table to be full of invalid connections and be unable to process new incoming requests. More Information: CSCvb66659. Known Affected Releases: 8.2(130.0). Known Fixed Releases: 8.2(131.10) 8.2(131.6) 8.2(141.0) 8.3(104.56) 8.4(1.88) 8.4(1.91).
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Low
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the connection table to be full of invalid connections and be unable to process new incoming requests. More Information: CSCvb66659. Known Affected Releases: 8.2(130.0). Known Fixed Releases: 8.2(131.10) 8.2(131.6) 8.2(141.0) 8.3(104.56) 8.4(1.88) 8.4(1.91).
- Record
CVE-2016-9220- CVSS 3.0
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - CVSS 2.0
- 3.3 Low
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-399
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the connection table to be full of invalid connections and be unable to process new incoming requests. More Information: CSCvb66659. Known Affected Releases: 8.2(130.0). Known Fixed Releases: 8.2(131.10) 8.2(131.6) 8.2(141.0) 8.3(104.56) 8.4(1.88) 8.4(1.91).
- Record
CVE-2016-9220- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-10032 No score
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the connection table to be full of invalid connections and be unable to process new incoming requests. More Information: CSCvb66659. Known Affected Releases: 8.2(130.0). Known Fixed Releases: 8.2(131.10) 8.2(131.6) 8.2(141.0) 8.3(104.56) 8.4(1.88) 8.4(1.91).
- Record
EUVD-2016-10032- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-c86h-r59x-c7j5
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility...
A Denial of Service Vulnerability in 802.11 ingress packet processing of the Cisco Mobility Express 2800 and 3800 Access Points (APs) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause the connection table to be full of invalid connections and be unable to process new incoming requests. More Information: CSCvb66659. Known Affected Releases: 8.2(130.0). Known Fixed Releases: 8.2(131.10) 8.2(131.6) 8.2(141.0) 8.3(104.56) 8.4(1.88) 8.4(1.91).
- Record
GHSA-c86h-r59x-c7j5- CVSS 3.0
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2016-9220 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Cisco Aironet Access Point Software, published January 26, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.45%, the 38th percentile. No source names a fixed version.