Cisco Email Security Appliance Advanced Malware Protection Email Attachment resource consumption
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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Email Security Appliance (Anti-Malware Software) (affected version not known). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Advanced Malware Protection. The manipulation as part of a Email Attachment leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality in Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESAs) could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust resources on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient control over system memory allocation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause an email attachment that contains malware to be delivered to a user and cause email processing delays.
The weakness was released 03/04/2020 as cisco-sa-esa-resource-exhaust- as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is available at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-3181 since 12/12/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8
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Exploiting
Class: Resource consumptionCWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: T1499
Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Timeline
12/12/2019 🔍03/04/2020 🔍
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Sources
Vendor: cisco.comAdvisory: cisco-sa-esa-resource-exhaust-
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2020-3181 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 03/05/2020 08:24Updated: 09/23/2020 12:41
Changes: 03/05/2020 08:24 (40), 09/23/2020 12:41 (12)
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