CVE-2019-15988

Cisco Email Security Appliance URL Filtering Bypass Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
5.8 Medium
Published
Nov 26, 2019
Updated
Nov 19, 2024
Reserved
Sep 6, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the antispam protection mechanisms of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the URL reputation filters on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting the URL in a particular way. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the URL reputation filters that are configured for the affected device, which could allow malicious URLs to pass through the device.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.05.8 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)Cisco
  • before n/aAffected

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