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Cisco Email Security Appliance MIME Header Bypass Vulnerability

🗓️ 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AGType 
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Cisco Email Security MIME Header Bypass Vulnerability in Cisco AsyncOS Softwar

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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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.140030");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-6372");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_version("2025-12-19T15:41:09+0000");

  script_name("Cisco Email Security Appliance MIME Header Bypass Vulnerability");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-esawsa2");

  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 email message and content filtering for malformed Multipurpose Internet Mail
  Extensions (MIME) headers of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) and
  Web Security Appliances (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the
  filtering functionality of the targeted device. Emails that should have been quarantined could
  instead be processed.

  The vulnerability is due to improper error handling when malformed MIME headers are present in the
  email attachment. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an email with a crafted
  attachment encoded with MIME. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the configured
  email message and content filtering.

  Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that address this
  vulnerability are not available.");

  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:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-07-29 01:34:00 +0000 (Sat, 29 Jul 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-10-27 14:50:12 +0200 (Thu, 27 Oct 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(
  '8.0.0',
  '8.0.1-023',
  '8.5.0-000',
  '8.5.0-ER1-198',
  '8.5.6-052',
  '8.5.6-073',
  '8.5.6-074',
  '8.5.6-106',
  '8.5.6-113',
  '8.5.7-042',
  '8.6.0',
  '8.6.0-011',
  '8.9.0',
  '8.9.1-000',
  '8.9.2-032',
  '9.0.0',
  '9.0.0-212',
  '9.0.0-461',
  '9.0.5-000',
  '9.1.0',
  '9.1.0-011',
  '9.1.0-101',
  '9.1.0-032',
  '9.1.1-000',
  '9.4.0',
  '9.4.4-000',
  '9.5.0-000',
  '9.5.0-201',
  '9.6.0-000',
  '9.6.0-042',
  '9.6.0-051',
  '9.9.0',
  '9.9.6-026',
  '9.7.0-125',
  '9.7.1-066' );

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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