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CVE-2018-15453
published 2019-01-10

CVE-2018-15453: A vulnerability in the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Decryption and Verification or S/MIME Public Key Harvesting features of Cisco…

PriorityP347high8.6CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSCCNINAH
EPSS
2.29%
81.1th percentile
A vulnerability in the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Decryption and Verification or S/MIME Public Key Harvesting features of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to corrupt system memory. A successful exploit could cause the filtering process to unexpectedly reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of S/MIME-signed emails. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious S/MIME-signed email through a targeted device. If Decryption and Verification or Public Key Harvesting is configured, the filtering process could crash due to memory corruption and restart, resulting in a DoS condition. The software could then resume processing the same S/MIME-signed email, causing the filtering process to crash and restart again. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a permanent DoS condition. This vulnerability may require manual intervention to recover the ESA.

Affected

4 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
ciscocisco_email_security_appliance
ciscoemail_security_appliance
ciscoemail_security_appliance_firmware
ciscoemail_security_appliance_firmware

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.6HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv3.08.6HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.07.8HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
vendor_cisco8.6HIGH
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