CVE-2022-20960

Summary

A vulnerability in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of certain TLS connections that are processed by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing a large number of concurrent TLS connections to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to drop new TLS email messages that come from the associated email servers. Exploitation of this vulnerability does not cause the affected device to unexpectedly reload. The device will recover autonomously within a few hours of when the attack is halted or mitigated.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.0.3-238affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.1.0-069affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.1.0-131affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.1.0-128affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.0.0-419affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.1.0-071affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.1.0-087affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.1.0-089affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email13.0.0-392affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email13.5.1-277affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.5.0-066affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email14.0.0-698affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email14.2.0-620affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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