CVE-2015-4184 (GCVE-0-2015-4184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-06-13 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:04
VLAI
Summary
The anti-spam scanner on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices 3.3.1-09, 7.5.1-gpl-022, and 8.5.6-074 allows remote attackers to bypass intended e-mail restrictions via a malformed DNS SPF record, aka Bug IDs CSCuu35853 and CSCuu37733.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032582 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75181 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
Date Public
2015-06-12 00:00
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