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Cisco Email Security Appliance Uncontrolled Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability

medium Nessus Plugin ID 135012

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) is affected by a vulnerability. Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvr96489

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?02c3e52f

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvr96489

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 135012

File Name: cisco-sa-esa-resource-exhaust-D7RQAhnD.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 3/31/2020

Updated: 6/3/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3181

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:cisco:asyncos

Required KB Items: Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Email Security Appliance/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3181

CWE: 400

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-esa-resource-exhaust-D7RQAhnD

IAVA: 2019-A-0368-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvr96489