CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
52.7%
According to its self-reported version, Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the email message filtering feature due to improper handling of email messages that contain large attachments. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a malicious email message, in order to increase CPU utilization to 100 percent and cause a permanent DoS condition, requiring manual intervention to recover the ESA.
Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information
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##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
##
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(134107);
script_version("1.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/10/19");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-1947");
script_xref(name:"CISCO-BUG-ID", value:"CSCvq03793");
script_xref(name:"CISCO-SA", value:"cisco-sa-20200219-esa-dos");
script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2020-A-0079-S");
script_name(english:"Cisco Email Security Appliance DoS (cisco-sa-20200219-esa-dos)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to its self-reported version, Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) is affected by a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability in the email message filtering feature due to improper handling of email messages that contain large
attachments. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a malicious email message, in order to
increase CPU utilization to 100 percent and cause a permanent DoS condition, requiring manual intervention to recover
the ESA.
Please see the included Cisco BID and Cisco Security Advisory for more information");
# https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20200219-esa-dos
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9e2c1c11");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCvq03793");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCvq03793");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-1947");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"combined");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:cisco:email_security_appliance_(esa)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"CISCO");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("cisco_esa_version.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Email Security Appliance/Version");
exit(0);
}
include('ccf.inc');
var product_info = cisco::get_product_info(name:'Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)');
var version_list = make_list('12.1.0.085', '11.1.0.131');
var reporting = make_array(
'port' , 0,
'severity' , SECURITY_HOLE,
'version' , product_info['version'],
'bug_id' , 'CSCvq03793',
'disable_caveat', TRUE
);
cisco::check_and_report(
product_info:product_info,
reporting:reporting,
vuln_versions:version_list
);
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
52.7%