CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-0140

Direct Request ('Forced Browsing')

Published: Feb 08, 2018 | Modified: Feb 21, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine of Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to download any message from the spam quarantine by modifying browser string information. The vulnerability is due to a lack of verification of authenticated user accounts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by modifying browser strings to see messages submitted by other users to the spam quarantine within their company. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvg39759, CSCvg42295.

Weakness

The web application does not adequately enforce appropriate authorization on all restricted URLs, scripts, or files.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Email_security_appliance_firmware Cisco 9.8.0-112 (including) 9.8.0-112 (including)
Email_security_appliance_firmware Cisco 10.0.1-087 (including) 10.0.1-087 (including)
Email_security_appliance_firmware Cisco 11.0.0-274 (including) 11.0.0-274 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References