PT-2015-7172 · Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance

Published 2015-10-02 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2015-6309

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) versions 8.5.6-106 through 9.6.0-042

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in file-descriptor consumption and device reload, via crafted HTTP requests.

Recommendations For versions 8.5.6-106 through 9.6.0-042, consider restricting access to HTTP requests until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, limit the number of concurrent HTTP requests to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-6309

Affected Products

Cisco Email Security Appliance

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6309 · Security Note
• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=41241 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1033716 · Note