CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12309
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-113
Description
A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack. The vulnerability is due to the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses. An exploit could allow the attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf16705.
Affected configurations
• cisco email security appliance firmware 10.0.2-020
• cisco email security appliance firmware 11.0.0-105
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-113 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101928 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039831 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101928 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039831 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa Vendor Advisory