CVE-2017-12309 Other in Cisco Email Security Appliance
Unauthenticated attackers can inject HTTP headers to split responses, enabling XSS, defacement, and cache poisoning on Cisco Email Security Appliances.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-12309?
CVE-2017-12309 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Email Security Appliance, published on 16 Nov 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-113
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12309?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Email Security Appliance Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-12309?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-12309 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-12309 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12309 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Email Security Appliance
- CVE-2016-6406 Auth bypass in n/a
- CVE-2018-15453 Cisco Email Security Appliance Memory Corruption Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2017-6671 Security feature bypass in Cisco Email Security Appliance
- CVE-2016-6458 Security feature bypass in Cisco AsyncOS 10.0.0-125 and 9.7.1-066
- CVE-2019-12706 Cisco Email Security Appliance Filter Bypass Vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fr94-63q7-g53g.