CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6356
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop scanning and forwarding email messages due to a denial of service (DoS) condition. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects all releases prior to the first fixed release of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances, both virtual and hardware appliances, if the software is configured to apply a message filter or content filter to incoming email attachments. The vulnerability is not limited to any specific rules or actions for a message filter or content filter. More Information: CSCuz63143. Known Affected Releases: 8.5.7-042 9.7.0-125. Known Fixed Releases: 10.0.0-125 9.1.1-038 9.7.2-047.
Affected configurations
• cisco email security appliance 3.3.1-09
• cisco email security appliance 7.1.0
• cisco email security appliance 7.1.1
• cisco email security appliance 7.1.2
• cisco email security appliance 7.1.3
• cisco email security appliance 7.1.4
• cisco email security appliance 7.1.5
• cisco email security appliance 7.3.0
• cisco email security appliance 7.3.1
• cisco email security appliance 7.3.2
• cisco email security appliance 7.5.0
• cisco email security appliance 7.5.1
• cisco email security appliance 7.5.2
• cisco email security appliance 7.5.2-201
• cisco email security appliance 7.6.0
• cisco email security appliance 7.6.1-000
• cisco email security appliance 7.6.1-gpl-022
• cisco email security appliance 7.6.2
• cisco email security appliance 7.6.3-000
• cisco email security appliance 7.6.3-025
• cisco email security appliance 7.7.0-000
• cisco email security appliance 7.7.1-000
• cisco email security appliance 7.8.0
• cisco email security appliance 7.8.0-311
• cisco email security appliance 8.0.1-023
• cisco email security appliance 8.0 base
• cisco email security appliance 8.5.0-000
• cisco email security appliance 8.5.0-er1-198
• 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 8.6.0
• cisco email security appliance 8.6.0-011
• cisco email security appliance 8.9.0
• cisco email security appliance 8.9.1-000
• cisco email security appliance 8.9.2-032
• 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
• cisco email security appliance 9.1.0-011
• cisco email security appliance 9.1.0-032
• cisco email security appliance 9.1.0-101
• cisco email security appliance 9.4.0
• cisco email security appliance 9.4.4-000
• cisco email security appliance 9.5.0-000
• cisco email security appliance 9.5.0-201
• cisco email security appliance 9.6.0-000
• cisco email security appliance 9.6.0-042
• cisco email security appliance 9.6.0-051
• cisco email security appliance 9.7.0-125
• cisco email security appliance 9.7.1-066
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93907 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037122 www.securitytracker.com
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-esa3 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93907 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037122 www.securitytracker.com
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-esa3 Vendor Advisory