CVE-2020-3132

Cisco Email Security Appliance Shortened URL Denial of Service Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Feb 19, 2020
Updated
Nov 15, 2024
Reserved
Dec 12, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the email message scanning feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a temporary denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inadequate parsing mechanisms for specific email body components. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious email containing a high number of shortened URLs through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to consume processing resources, causing a DoS condition on an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, certain conditions beyond the control of the attacker must occur.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.06.8 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

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

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