Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2016-6366

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SNMP Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Cisco
Product Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)
Weakness CWE-119

The vulnerability

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) code of Cisco ASA software could allow an attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 14 June 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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