CVE-2017-12309CWE-113

A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack

published November 16, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack. The vulnerability is due to the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses. An exploit could allow the attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf16705.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01656 · 76.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-113 · Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting')
Published
2017-11-16T07:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 NOV 07:00Z
    A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack
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