CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6372

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-10-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A vulnerability in the email message and content filtering for malformed Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) headers of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) and Web Security Appliances (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the filtering functionality of the targeted device. Emails that should have been quarantined could instead be processed. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects all releases prior to the first fixed release of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco ESA and Cisco WSA on both virtual and hardware appliances that are configured with message or content filters to scan incoming email attachments. More Information: CSCuy54740, CSCuy75174. Known Affected Releases: 9.7.1-066 9.5.0-575 WSA10.0.0-000. Known Fixed Releases: 10.0.0-125 9.1.1-038 9.7.2-047.

Affected configurations

• 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 9.1.1-000 • 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 • cisco email security appliance 9.9.6-026 • cisco email security appliance 9.9 base • cisco web security appliance 5.6.0-623 • cisco web security appliance 6.0.0-000 • cisco web security appliance 7.1.0 • cisco web security appliance 7.1.1 • cisco web security appliance 7.1.2 • cisco web security appliance 7.1.3 • cisco web security appliance 7.1.4 • cisco web security appliance 7.5.0-000 • cisco web security appliance 7.5.0-825 • cisco web security appliance 7.5.1-000 • cisco web security appliance 7.5.2-000 • cisco web security appliance 7.5.2-hp2-303 • cisco web security appliance 7.7.0-000 • cisco web security appliance 7.7.0-608 • cisco web security appliance 7.7.1-000 • cisco web security appliance 7.7.5-835 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.0-000 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.5 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.6 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.6-078 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.6-119 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.7 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.7-142 • cisco web security appliance 8.0.8-mr-113 • cisco web security appliance 8.5.0-497 … and 17 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References