A vulnerability in the spam quarantine of Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance could allow an auth

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• cisco content security management appliance10.0.0-096
• cisco content security management appliance10.1.0-037
• cisco content security management appliance10.1.0-052
• cisco content security management appliance11.0.0-115
• cisco email security appliance firmware10.0.1-087
• cisco email security appliance firmware11.0.0-274
• cisco email security appliance firmware9.8.0-112

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• n/a Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance

  • Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Content Security Management Applianceaffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2016-6406Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 9.1.2-023, 9.1.2-028, 9.1.2-036, 9.7.2-046, 9.7.2-047, 9.7.2-054, 10.0.0-124, and 10.0.0-125 on Email Security Applia
  40Plan
• CVE-2018-15453Cisco Email Security Appliance Memory Corruption Denial of Service Vulnerability
  35Monitor
• CVE-2017-6671A vulnerability in the email message scanning of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthentica
  31Monitor
• CVE-2016-6458A vulnerability in the content filtering functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthen
  31Monitor
• CVE-2019-12706Cisco Email Security Appliance Filter Bypass Vulnerability
  30Monitor
• CVE-2019-1955Cisco Email Security Appliance Header Injection Vulnerability
  30Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.