Cisco Email Security Appliance SMTP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
🗓️ 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco Email Security Appliance SMTP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability | 7 Dec 201616:00 | – | cisco | |
| Cisco AsyncOS Software for Email Security Appliances Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability | 16 Dec 201600:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2016-9202 | 14 Dec 201600:37 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2016-9202 | 14 Dec 201600:37 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2016-10014 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2016-9202 | 14 Dec 201600:59 | – | nvd | |
| CVE-2016-9202 | 14 Dec 201600:59 | – | osv | |
| Cross site scripting | 14 Dec 201600:59 | – | prion |
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.106443");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-9202");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_version("2025-12-19T15:41:09+0000");
script_name("Cisco Email Security Appliance SMTP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161207-esa1");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"See the referenced vendor advisory for a solution.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email
Security Appliance (ESA) Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a persistent
cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the affected interface on an affected device.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input
by the web-based management interface of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by
persuading a user of the interface to click a crafted link.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script
code in the context of the interface or allow the attacker to access sensitive browser-based information.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2016-12-22 18:31:00 +0000 (Thu, 22 Dec 2016)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-12-08 11:24:12 +0700 (Thu, 08 Dec 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 );
affected = make_list(
'9.5.0-000',
'9.5.0-201',
'9.1.2-023',
'9.1.2-028',
'9.1.2-036',
'9.1.1-036',
'9.6.0-000',
'9.6.0-042',
'9.6.0-051',
'9.4.4-000',
'9.7.0-125',
'9.7.1-066',
'9.7.2-046',
'9.7.2-047',
'9.7.2-054' );
foreach af ( affected )
{
if( version == af )
{
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:version, fixed_version: "See advisory" );
security_message( port:0, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
}
exit( 99 );
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19 Dec 2025 00:00Current
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CVSS 24.3
CVSS 36.1
EPSS0.01562