Cisco Content Security Management Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerability (CSCvo89182)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 133960

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) is affected by an input-validation flaw related to the email message filtering feature that allows denial of service attacks.

Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvo89182

See Also

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvo89182

http://www.nessus.org/u?b12c8fec

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 133960

File Name: cisco-sa-20200219-esa-sma-dos_CSCvo89182_for_sma.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 2/25/2020

Updated: 10/16/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1983

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/h:cisco:content_security_management_appliance

Required KB Items: Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Content Security Management Appliance/DisplayVersion, Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Content Security Management Appliance/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1983

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-20200219-esa-sma-dos

IAVA: 2020-A-0045

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvo89182