CVE-2017-12215

HIGH

Cisco AsyncOS - Denial of Service via Email Message Filtering

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for the Cisco Email Security Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to run out of memory and stop scanning and forwarding email messages. When system memory is depleted, it can cause the filtering process to crash, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the device. This vulnerability affects software version 9.0 through the first fixed release of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances, both virtual and hardware appliances, if the software is configured to apply a message filter or content filter to incoming email attachments. The vulnerability is not limited to any specific rules or actions for a message filter or content filter. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvd29354.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100920
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039414

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0167
EPSS Percentile 73.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (8)
cisco/asyncos 9.0
cisco/asyncos 9.1
cisco/asyncos 9.1.2
cisco/asyncos 9.5
cisco/asyncos 9.6
cisco/asyncos 9.7
cisco/asyncos 9.8
n/a/Cisco Email Security Appliance Cisco Email Security Appliance
Published Sep 21, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026