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Cisco Email Security Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerability

cisco-sa-esa-dos-gdghHmbV · Medium · Published · Updated

A vulnerability in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of certain TLS connections that are processed by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing a large number of concurrent TLS connections to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to drop new TLS email messages that come from the associated email servers. Exploitation of this vulnerability does not cause the affected device to unexpectedly reload. The device will recover autonomously within a few hours of when the attack is halted or mitigated. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-esa-dos-gdghHmbV

Workarounds

There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

CVEsCVE-2022-20960
Cisco Bug IDsCSCwc35162
CVSS ScoreBase 7.5
Base 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
Product Names From Source
Cisco Secure Email

CSAF Product Statuses

Product Status Source CVE Rows
Cisco Secure Email known_affected cisco_csaf CVE-2022-20960 1

Related Products

Product CVE Evidence
Cisco Secure Email CVE-2022-20960 Cisco OpenVuln