VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1423

medium
Published 2016-10-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.1

Description

A vulnerability in the display of email messages in the Messages in Quarantine (MIQ) view in Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a user to click a malicious link in the MIQ view. The malicious link could be used to facilitate a cross-site scripting (XSS) or HTML injection attack. More Information: CSCuz02235. Known Affected Releases: 8.0.2-069. Known Fixed Releases: 9.1.1-038 9.7.2-047.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
71%
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 ciscoemail_security_appliance8.9.0
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance8.9.1-000
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance8.9.2-032
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.0.0
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.0.0-212
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.0.0-461
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.0.5-000
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.1.0
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.1.0-011
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.1.0-032
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.1.0-101

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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

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