cve-2018-15460
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-01-10 22:00
Modified
2024-11-19 19:18
Severity ?
8.6 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (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 filtering of email messages that contain references to whitelisted URLs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious email message that contains a large number of whitelisted URLs. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a sustained DoS condition that could force the affected device to stop scanning and forwarding email messages.
References
ykramarz@cisco.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106507Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190109-esa-url-dosVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106507Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20190109-esa-url-dosVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) Version: n/a
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