CVE-2015-6291 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2015-6291

Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-043, 9.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and...

Vulnerability Description

Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-043, 9.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and 9.6.x before 9.6.0-046 on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices mishandles malformed fields during body-contains, attachment-contains, every-attachment-contains, attachment-binary-contains, dictionary-match, and attachment-dictionary-match filtering, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted attachment in an e-mail message, aka Bug ID CSCuv47151.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

email security appliance
Vulnerable Versions:
7.7.0-000, 7.7.1-000, 8.0_base, 8.5.6-052, 8.5.6-073, 8.5.6-074, 8.5.6-106, 8.5.6-113, 8.5.7-042, 8.5_base, 9.0.0, 9.0.0-212, 9.0.0-461, 9.0.5-000, 9.1.0-032, 9.6.0-042

Timeline

Official Publish: November 6th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.