A vulnerability in the email attachment scanning functionality of the Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software f…

Published 10 y ago 2016-10-28 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

3.0%

percentile 87%

Public exploits

none known

A vulnerability in the email attachment scanning functionality of the Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to stop scanning and forwarding email messages due to a denial of service (DoS) condition. Affected Products: This vulnerability affects Cisco AsyncOS Software releases 9.7.1 and later, prior to the first fixed release, for both virtual and hardware Cisco Email Security Appliances, if the AMP feature is configured to scan incoming email attachments. More Information: CSCuy99453. Known Affected Releases: 9.7.1-066. Known Fixed Releases: 10.0.0-125 9.7.1-207 9.7.2-047.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

3.00% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.8	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`

Affected products

n/a Cisco AsyncOS through 9.7.1-066

Classification

Weakness

CWE-19 Data Processing Errors

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20161026-esa2 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1037124 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/93906 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-1486
NVD: CVE-2016-1486

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