CVE-2015-6285 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Format string vulnerability in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) 7.6.0 and 8.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite or service outage) via format string specifiers in an HTTP request, aka Bug ID CSCug21497.

Published: 2015-09-14

Score: 6.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:h:cisco:email_security_appliance:7.6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.0.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-6227	Format string vulnerability in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) 7.6.0 and 8.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite or service outage) via format string specifiers in an HTTP request, aka Bug ID CSCug21497.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00442.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=40844
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033531

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Email Security Appliance

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2015-09-14T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:15:13.304Z

Reserved: 2015-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-6285

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-09-14T01:59:03.137

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-6285

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-134

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