This page lists publicly disclosed CVE vulnerabilities affecting cisco content_security_management_appliance (linked via NVD CPE). Each row includes severity scores, summaries, and publication dates to help identify and analyze security issues.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-1516 | A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA), Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device. The vulnerability exists because confidential information is included in HTTP requests that are exchanged between the user and the device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by | [email protected] | 4.3 | 1.16% | 2021-05-06 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2021-1447 | A vulnerability in the user account management system of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate their privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to a procedural flaw in the password generation algorithm. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enabling specific Administrator-only features and connecting to the appliance through the CLI with elevated privileges. A successful exploit could allow the att | [email protected] | 6.7 | 0.27% | 2021-05-06 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2021-1129 | A vulnerability in the authentication for the general purpose APIs implementation of Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA), and Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access general system information and certain configuration information from an affected device. The vulnerability exists because a secure authentication token is not required when authenticating to the general purpose API. An attacker | [email protected] | 5.3 | 1.14% | 2021-01-20 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-3117 | A vulnerability in the API Framework of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject crafted HTTP headers in the web server's response. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to access a crafted URL and receive a malicious HTTP response. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to | [email protected] | 4.7 | 0.92% | 2020-09-22 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2019-1983 | A vulnerability in the email message filtering feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause repeated crashes in some internal processes that are running on the affected devices, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of email attachments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sen | [email protected] | 5.3 | 1.86% | 2020-09-22 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-3447 | A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to excessive verbosity in certain log subscriptions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing specific log files on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain sensitiv | [email protected] | 5.5 | 0.74% | 2020-08-17 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-3178 | Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based GUI of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to redirect a user to a malicious web page. The vulnerabilities are due to improper input validation of the parameters of an HTTP request. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by intercepting an HTTP request and modifying it to redirect a user to a specific malicious URL. A successful exploit could allow the attac | [email protected] | 6.1 | 0.84% | 2020-05-06 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2020-3164 | 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 HTT | [email protected] | 5.3 | 1.28% | 2020-03-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2019-12635 | A vulnerability in the authorization module of Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain out-of-scope access to email. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not correctly implement role permission controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a custom role with specific permissions. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access the spam quarantine of other users. | [email protected] | 4.3 | 1.02% | 2019-09-04 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2018-15393 | A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based management interface. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of the interface to click a malic | [email protected] | 4.8 | 1.23% | 2018-11-08 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2018-0140 | 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. | [email protected] | 6.5 | 1.60% | 2018-02-08 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-6783 | A vulnerability in SNMP polling for the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to discover confidential information about the appliances that should be available only to an administrative user. The vulnerability occurs because the appliances do not protect confidential information at rest in response to Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) poll requests. An attacker cou | [email protected] | 4.3 | 1.34% | 2017-08-17 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2017-6661 | A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the web-based management interface of an affected device, aka Message Tracking XSS. More Information: CSCvd30805 CSCvd34861. Known Affected Releases: 10.0.0-203 10.1.0-049. | [email protected] | 6.1 | 1.24% | 2017-06-13 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2016-1411 | A vulnerability in the update functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), and Cisco Content Management Security Appliance (SMA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate the update server. More Information: CSCul88715, CSCul94617, CSCul94627. Known Affected Releases: 7.5.2-201 7.6.3-025 8.0.1-023 8.5.0-000 8.5.0-ER1-198 7.5.2-HP2-303 7.7.0-608 7.7.5-835 8.5.1-021 8.8.0-000 7.9.1-102 8.0.0-404 8.1.1-013 | [email protected] | 5.9 | 1.12% | 2016-12-13 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2016-6416 | The FTP service in Cisco AsyncOS on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices 9.6.0-000 through 9.9.6-026, Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices 9.0.0-162 through 9.5.0-444, and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a flood of FTP traffic, aka Bug IDs CSCuz82907, CSCuz84330, and CSCuz86065. | [email protected] | 5.9 | 2.02% | 2016-10-05 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2016-2183 | The DES and Triple DES ciphers, as used in the TLS, SSH, and IPSec protocols and other protocols and products, have a birthday bound of approximately four billion blocks, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a birthday attack against a long-duration encrypted session, as demonstrated by an HTTPS session using Triple DES in CBC mode, aka a "Sweet32" attack. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 95.71% | 2016-08-31 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-6321 | Cisco AsyncOS before 8.5.7-042, 9.x before 9.1.0-032, 9.1.x before 9.1.1-023, and 9.5.x and 9.6.x before 9.6.0-042 on Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices; before 9.1.0-032, 9.1.1 before 9.1.1-005, and 9.5.x before 9.5.0-025 on Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices; and before 7.7.0-725 and 8.x before 8.0.8-113 on Web Security Appliance (WSA) devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of TCP packets, aka Bug IDs CSCus79774, CSCus | [email protected] | 7.8 | 2.76% | 2015-11-05 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-6288 | Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) 7.8.0-000 does not properly validate credentials, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (rapid log-file rollover and application fault) via crafted HTTP requests, aka Bug ID CSCuw09620. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 2.21% | 2015-09-13 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-4322 | Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) 8.3.6-039, 9.1.0-31, and 9.1.0-103 improperly restricts the privileges available after LDAP authentication, which allows remote authenticated users to read or write to an arbitrary user's Spam Quarantine folder by visiting a spam-notification URL, aka Bug ID CSCuv65894. | [email protected] | 5.5 | 1.70% | 2015-08-19 | 2026-06-16 |
| CVE-2015-4288 | The LDAP implementation on the Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) 8.5.0-000, Email Security Appliance (ESA) 8.5.7-042, and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) 8.3.6-048 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate, aka Bug IDs CSCuo29561, CSCuv40466, and CSCuv40470. | [email protected] | 4.3 | 0.48% | 2015-07-28 | 2026-06-16 |