A vulnerability in the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Decryption and Verification or S/MIME Public Key Harvesting features of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to corrupt system memory. A successful exploit could cause the filtering process to unexpectedly reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition on the device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of S/MIME-signed emails. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious S/MIME-signed email through a targeted device. If Decryption and Verification or Public Key Harvesting is configured, the filtering process could crash due to memory corruption and restart, resulting in a DoS condition. The software could then resume processing the same S/MIME-signed email, causing the filtering process to crash and restart again. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a permanent DoS condition. This vulnerability may require manual intervention to recover the ESA.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2019-01-10T18:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T19:19:26.638Z

Reserved: 2018-08-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-15453

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-01-10T18:29:00.500

Modified: 2020-09-16T14:13:44.997

Link: CVE-2018-15453

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