CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-6291

7.8 HIGH Published 2015-11-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
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

Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-043, 9.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and 9.6.x before 9.6.0-046 on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices mishandles malformed fields during body-contains, attachment-contains, every-attachment-contains, attachment-binary-contains, dictionary-match, and attachment-dictionary-match filtering, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted attachment in an e-mail message, aka Bug ID CSCuv47151.

Affected configurations

• cisco email security appliance 7.7.0-000 • cisco email security appliance 7.7.1-000 • cisco email security appliance 8.0 base • cisco email security appliance 8.5.6-052 • cisco email security appliance 8.5.6-073 • cisco email security appliance 8.5.6-074 • cisco email security appliance 8.5.6-106 • cisco email security appliance 8.5.6-113 • cisco email security appliance 8.5.7-042 • cisco email security appliance 8.5 base • cisco email security appliance 9.0.0 • cisco email security appliance 9.0.0-212 • cisco email security appliance 9.0.0-461 • cisco email security appliance 9.0.5-000 • cisco email security appliance 9.1.0-032 • cisco email security appliance 9.6.0-042

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References