CVE-2019-1947: Cisco Email Security Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerability
Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)
Vendor fix available · Affected: Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
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Higher than 80% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU utilization to increase to 100 percent, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of email messages that contain large attachments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious email message through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a permanent DoS condition due to high CPU utilization. This vulnerability may require manual intervention to recover the ESA.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)Versions not stated
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Cisco
- Published
- September 2020
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