CVE-2017-12309

MEDIUM

Cisco Email Security Appliance - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack. The vulnerability is due to the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses. An exploit could allow the attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf16705.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0098
EPSS Percentile 76.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-113
Status published
Products (3)
cisco/email_security_appliance_firmware 10.0.2-020
cisco/email_security_appliance_firmware 11.0.0-105
n/a/Cisco Email Security Appliance Cisco Email Security Appliance
Published Nov 16, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026