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Cisco Email Security Appliance Information Disclosure (cisco-sa-esa-info-disclosure-vMJMMgJ)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140273

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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 an information disclosure vulnerability in the web-based management interface, due to insufficient validation of requests sent to it. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending specially crafted requests, to disclose potentially sensitive information.

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 CSCvp01770

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?367dd0c9

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvp01770

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140273

File Name: cisco-sa-esa-info-disclosure-vMJMMgJ.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: CISCO

Published: 9/4/2020

Updated: 2/19/2021

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3546

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:L/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3546

CWE: 20

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-esa-info-disclosure-vMJMMgJ

IAVA: 2020-A-0400-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvp01770