CVE-2017-12309 Information

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101928 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039831 https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3