CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-12215

7.1 HIGH Published 2017-09-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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 the Cisco Email Security Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to run out of memory and stop scanning and forwarding email messages. When system memory is depleted, it can cause the filtering process to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the device. This vulnerability affects software version 9.0 through 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. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvd29354.

Affected configurations

• cisco asyncos 9.0 • cisco asyncos 9.1 • cisco asyncos 9.1.2 • cisco asyncos 9.5 • cisco asyncos 9.6 • cisco asyncos 9.7 • cisco asyncos 9.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References