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Cisco Email Security Appliance AMP ClamAV Denial of Service Vulnerability

🗓️ 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType 
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/h:cisco:email_security_appliance";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105743");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-1405");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_version("2025-12-19T15:41:09+0000");

  script_name("Cisco Email Security Appliance AMP ClamAV Denial of Service Vulnerability");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160531-wsa-esa");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability is due to improper parsing of input files by the libclamav library. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted document that triggers a scan from the AMP ClamAV library on an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the AMP process to restart.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See Vendor advisory.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) software that is used by Cisco Advance Malware Protection (AMP) for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESAs) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the AMP process to restart.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ESA 9.x < 9.7.0-125");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");

  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-12-19 15:41:09 +0000 (Fri, 19 Dec 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2016-11-28 19:58:00 +0000 (Mon, 28 Nov 2016)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-06-01 12:07:00 +0200 (Wed, 01 Jun 2016)");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("CISCO");
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
  script_dependencies("gb_cisco_esa_consolidation.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("cisco/esa/detected");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe:CPE ) ) exit( 0 );

version = str_replace( string:version, find:"-", replace:"." );

if( version =~ "^9\." )
  if( version_is_less( version:version, test_version:'9.7.0.125' ) ) fix = '9.7.0-125';

if( fix )
{
  report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version:fix );
  security_message( port:0, data:report );
  exit( 0 );
}

exit( 99 );

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19 Dec 2025 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
CVSS 25
CVSS 37.5
EPSS0.03406
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