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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2020-3548 EUVD-2020-24819GHSA-r24r-r242-xm9f

Cisco Email Security Appliance Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Published Nov 18, 2024 · Updated Nov 18, 2024 · Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol implementation of Cisco AsyncOS software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU usage on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
The vulnerability is due to inefficient processing of incoming TLS traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of crafted TLS packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a prolonged state of high CPU utilization. The affected device would still be operative, but response time and overall performance may be degraded.There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cisco Cisco Secure Email N/A —

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