CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-5537

7.8 HIGH Published 2013-10-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-10-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The web framework on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices does not properly manage the state of HTTP and HTTPS sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (management GUI outage) via multiple TCP connections, aka Bug IDs CSCuj59411, CSCuf89818, and CSCuh05635.

Affected configurations

• cisco web security appliance • cisco content security management appliance • cisco email security appliance firmware

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References