Cisco Email Security Appliance Content Filter Bypass Vulnerability
Cisco · Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)
A vulnerability in the email message scanning of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured content filters on the device. The vulnerability is due to improper input validation of the email body. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by inserting specific character strings in the message. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured content filters that would normally drop the email.
- Exploited
- Not confirmed
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 2/15
How an attack unfolds
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What can follow
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Disclosed on 18 Apr 2019. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.
MITRE ATT&CKA public catalogue of the techniques attackers use, maintained by MITRE. Patchfirst uses it to describe what attackers do with a vulnerability. techniques
2 TechniqueOne specific attacker behaviour in MITRE ATT&CK, such as T1190 “Exploit Public-Facing Application”. IDs with a dot, like T1059.004, are sub-techniques., grouped by TacticThe attacker’s goal at a stage of an attack in MITRE ATT&CK, such as Initial Access or Persistence. Each technique belongs to one or more tactics. in kill-chain order 2Initial AccessTA0001
Stealth
Detection
0 rules for this CVE · 54 general rules for its techniquesRules for this CVE
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General rules for this CVE’s techniques
These detect the technique in general, not this specific vulnerability.
MasqueradingT103640 general rules
- Potential LSASS Process Dump Via Procdumphighstable
- CreateDump Process Dumphightest
- Forfiles.EXE Child Process Masqueradinghightest
- HackTool - XORDump Executionhightest
- Password Protected ZIP File Opened (Suspicious Filenames)hightest
- Potential SysInternals ProcDump Evasionhightest
- Process Execution From A Potentially Suspicious Folderhightest
- Process Memory Dump Via Comsvcs.DLLhightest
PhishingT156614 general rules
- CVE-2021-31979 CVE-2021-33771 Exploitscriticaltest
- CVE-2021-31979 CVE-2021-33771 Exploits by Sourgumcriticaltest
- HTML Help HH.EXE Suspicious Child Processhightest
- Okta FastPass Phishing Detectionhightest
- Phishing Pattern ISO in Archivehightest
- Potential Malicious Usage of CloudTrail System Managerhightest
- Suspicious External WebDAV Executionhightest
- Suspicious HH.EXE Executionhightest
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