CVE-2013-5537

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

24/10/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The web framework on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices does not properly manage the state of HTTP and HTTPS sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (management GUI outage) via multiple TCP connections, aka Bug IDs CSCuj59411, CSCuf89818, and CSCuh05635.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:web_security_appliance:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:content_security_management_appliance:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:email_security_appliance_firmware:-:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2013-5537

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools