PT-2017-12482 · Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance

Published 2017-11-16 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-12309

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct an HTTP response splitting attack. This is due to the failure to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses. This could allow the attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-113

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-12309

Affected Products

Cisco Email Security Appliance

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12309 · Security Note
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/101928 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1039831 · Note