Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (SMA) HTTP Response Header Injection (cisco-sa-ESA-HTTP-Inject-nvsycUmR)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 166904

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Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (SMA) is affected by a vulnerability due to a failure to sanitize input values. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by injecting malicious HTTP headers, in order to conduct an HTTP response splitting attack.

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCvz24026, CSCwa84908

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 166904

File Name: cisco-sa-ESA-HTTP-Inject-nvsycUmR_sma.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 11/3/2022

Updated: 9/21/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-20772

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:email_security_appliance

Required KB Items: Host/AsyncOS/Cisco Content Security Management Appliance/DisplayVersion

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-20772

CWE: 113

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-ESA-HTTP-Inject-nvsycUmR

IAVA: 2022-A-0463-S

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCvz24026, CSCwa84908

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