VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6358

high
Published 2016-10-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

A vulnerability in local FTP to the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a partial denial of service (DoS) condition when the FTP application unexpectedly quits. More Information: CSCux68539. Known Affected Releases: 9.1.0-032 9.7.1-000. Known Fixed Releases: 9.1.1-038.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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_appliance9.7.1-066
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.7.2-046
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.7.2-047
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.7.2-054
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.9.6-026
cisco ciscoemail_security_appliance9.9_base

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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