Changing to Coordinated Disclosure

UPDATE 5/17/2016: The link for the POC for CVE-2016-1287 is live at https://github.com/exodusintel/disclosures

Last week Exodus finished disclosure on CVE-2016-1287 “Cisco ASA Software IKEv1 and IKEv2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability” officially marking the first time that we have gone through the process of coordinated disclosure. This disclosure represents a change in our internal policies and warrants discussion regarding the particulars of the change and what it means for Exodus going forward.

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Contributors

David Barksdale, Jordan Gruskovnjak, and Alex Wheeler

1. Background

Cisco has issued a fix to address CVE-2016-1287. The Cisco ASA Adaptive Security Appliance is an IP router that acts as an application-aware firewall, network antivirus, intrusion prevention system, and virtual private network (VPN) server. It is advertised as “the industry’s most deployed stateful firewall.” When deployed as a VPN, the device is accessible from the Internet and provides access to a company’s internal networks.

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