VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1411

medium
Published 2016-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

A vulnerability in the update functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), and Cisco Content Management Security Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate the update server. More Information: CSCul88715, CSCul94617, CSCul94627. Known Affected Releases: 7.5.2-201 7.6.3-025 8.0.1-023 8.5.0-000 8.5.0-ER1-198 7.5.2-HP2-303 7.7.0-608 7.7.5-835 8.5.1-021 8.8.0-000 7.9.1-102 8.0.0-404 8.1.1-013 8.2.0-222. Known Fixed Releases: 8.0.2-069 8.0.2-074 8.5.7-042 9.1.0-032 8.5.2-027 9.6.1-019.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-004
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-031
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-033
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.1.0-103
cisco ciscocontent_security_management_appliance9.6.0
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance7.5.2-201
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance7.5.2-hp2-303
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance7.6.3-025
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance8.0.1-023
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance8.5.0-000
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance8.5.0-er1-198
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance8.5.1-021
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.7.0-608
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance7.7.5-835
cisco ciscoweb_security_appliance8.8.0-000

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.