CVE-2017-12309
A vulnerability in the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a HTTP response splitting attack. The vulnerability is due to the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses. An exploit could allow the attacker to perform cross-site scripting attacks, cross-user defacement, web cache poisoning, and similar exploits. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf16705.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5.3
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.66%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 76
- Fecha de la puntuación: 4/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-113
- CWE-113
Referencias
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101928
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039831
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101928
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039831
- https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171115-esa
JSON original (NVD)
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