CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-1566

7.4 HIGH Published 2021-06-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295, CWE-296

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints integration of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to intercept traffic between an affected device and the AMP servers. This vulnerability is due to improper certificate validation when an affected device establishes TLS connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted TLS packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to spoof a trusted host and then extract sensitive information or alter certain API requests.

Affected configurations

• cisco email security appliance • cisco asyncos (< 12.5.3-035) • cisco asyncos (>= 13.0 < 13.0.0-030) • cisco asyncos (>= 13.5 < 13.5.3-010) • cisco web security appliance • cisco asyncos (< 11.8.3-021) • cisco asyncos (>= 12.0.0 < 12.0.3-005) • cisco asyncos (>= 12.5.0 < 12.5.1-043)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
  • CWE-296 Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust weakness

References