CVE-2014-8016

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

19/12/2014

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance (ESA) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via long Subject headers in e-mail messages, aka Bug ID CSCzv93864.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:ironport_email_security_appliances::::::::

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-8016
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-8016