Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2016-6356 First vendor Publication 2016-10-28
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-07-29

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop scanning and forwarding email messages due to a denial of service (DoS) condition. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects all releases prior to 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. More Information: CSCuz63143. Known Affected Releases: 8.5.7-042 9.7.0-125. Known Fixed Releases: 10.0.0-125 9.1.1-038 9.7.2-047.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6356

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 56

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-10-27 Cisco ESA lzw attachment parsing denial of service attempt
RuleID : 40552 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93907
CONFIRM https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-s...
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037122

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Date Informations
2021-05-04 12:52:41
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2021-04-22 02:04:48
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2020-05-23 00:52:34
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2017-07-29 12:05:21
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2016-11-29 00:26:32
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2016-10-29 00:23:57
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2016-10-28 17:23:32
  • First insertion