What is CVE-2018-15460?

CVE-2018-15460 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Asyncos, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2019-01-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-15460?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cisco Asyncos

CVE-2018-15460

A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the CPU utilization to increase to 100 percent, causing a d…

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.025 (83.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.6 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Cisco Asyncos
Cisco Email Security Appliance (Esa) — versions n/a
Cisco Email_security_appliance

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

psirt@cisco.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
psirt@cisco.com (x_refsource_CISCO, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15460?: CVE-2018-15460 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Asyncos, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 8.6/10. Published 2019-01-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-15460?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.6 out of 10.