CVE-2015-6291
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...
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.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
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.
- Record
CVE-2015-6291- CVSS 2.0
- 7.8 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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.
- Record
CVE-2015-6291- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2015-6233 No score
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.
- Record
EUVD-2015-6233- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xmvm-48fw-3ghc No score
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...
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.
- Record
GHSA-xmvm-48fw-3ghc- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2015-6291 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Cisco Email Security Appliance, published November 6, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.93%, the 80th percentile. No source names a fixed version.