CVE-2017-12215

CVE-2017-12215

Vendor N/A
Product Cisco Email Security Appliance
Weakness CWE-20 · Input validation
Published September 21, 2017
Last update August 5, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 21, 2017 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated