A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause high CPU usage on an affected device, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of specific HTTP request headers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a malformed HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a prolonged status of high CPU utilization relative to the GUI process(es). Upon successful exploitation of this vulnerability, an affected device will still be operative, but its response time and overall performance may be degraded.
References
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https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cont-sec-gui-dos-nJ625dXb | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisco
Published: 2020-03-04T00:00:00
Updated: 2020-03-04T18:40:41
Reserved: 2019-12-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-3164
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2020-03-04T19:15:12.930
Modified: 2020-03-05T16:36:47.640
Link: CVE-2020-3164
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CWE