Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 6, 2015· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-6291
CVE-2015-6291
Description
Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-043, 9.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and 9.6.x before 9.6.0-046 on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices mishandles malformed fields during body-contains, attachment-contains, every-attachment-contains, attachment-binary-contains, dictionary-match, and attachment-dictionary-match filtering, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted attachment in an e-mail message, aka Bug ID CSCuv47151.
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Affected products
17cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:7.7.0-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 15 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:7.7.0-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:7.7.1-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.0_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-052:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-073:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-074:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-106:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.6-113:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5.7-042:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:8.5_base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.0-212:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.0-461:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.0.5-000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.1.0-032:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:9.6.0-042:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: < 8.5.7-043 (8.x), < 9.1.1-023 (9.x), < 9.6.0-046 (9.5.x, 9.6.x)
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