CVE-2019-1947

HIGH

Cisco Email Security Appliance - Denial of Service via Large Email Attachments

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU utilization to increase to 100 percent, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of email messages that contain large attachments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious email message through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a permanent DoS condition due to high CPU utilization. This vulnerability may require manual intervention to recover the ESA.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0192
EPSS Percentile 77.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
cisco/asyncos 12.1.0-085
cisco/email_security_appliance 11.1.0-131
Published Sep 23, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026