CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-3818

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2017-02-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-02-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/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-20

Description

A vulnerability in the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) scanner of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured user filters on the device, aka a Malformed MIME Header Filtering Bypass. 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. More Information: CSCvb65245. Known Affected Releases: 9.7.1-066. Known Fixed Releases: 9.8.0-092.

Affected configurations

• cisco email security appliance firmware 9.7.1-066

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References