CVE-2020-3132

MEDIUM

Cisco Email Security Appliance < 12.5.1-037 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Malicious Email with Shortened URLs

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the email message scanning feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a temporary denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inadequate parsing mechanisms for specific email body components. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious email containing a high number of shortened URLs through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to consume processing resources, causing a DoS condition on an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, certain conditions beyond the control of the attacker must occur.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9
EPSS 0.0091
EPSS Percentile 76.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
cisco/cloud_email_security < 12.5.1-037
cisco/email_security_appliance < 12.5.1-037
Published Feb 19, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026