CVE-2019-1921

Cisco Email Security Appliance Content Filter Bypass Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
5.8 Medium
Published
Jul 6, 2019
Updated
Nov 19, 2024
Reserved
Dec 6, 2018

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Description

A vulnerability in the attachment scanning of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured content filters on the device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the email body. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by naming a malicious attachment with a specific pattern. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured content filters that would normally block the attachment.

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
  • 12.0.0-419Affected

References

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