Cisco Email Security Appliance Uncontrolled Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA))

CVE-2020-3181
MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.56 % · percentile 75 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality in Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESAs) could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust resources on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient control over system memory allocation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an email attachment that contains malware to be delivered to a user and cause email processing delays.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Lcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)affected unspecified < n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD