CVE-2021-34741 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Cisco Asyncos
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 53.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 4
Latest updateMay 24
Description
A vulnerability in the email scanning algorithm of Cisco AsyncOS software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack against an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of incoming emails. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through Cisco ESA. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust all the available CPU resources on an …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6