Medium severity · published Nov 16, 2017
CVE-2017-12309
A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack
5.3
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack. The vulnerability is due to the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses. An exploit could allow the attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf16705.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 76% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Email Security Appliance Firmware · Cisco
10.0.2-020; 11.0.0-105 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12309
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12309
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101928
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039831
Vendor Advisory
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa
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