CVE-2015-4278

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) devices with software 8.5.6-106 and 9.5.0-201 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (per-domain e-mail reception outage) by placing malformed DMARC policy data in DNS TXT records for a domain, aka Bug ID CSCuv14806.

Affected products

Cisco Email Security Appliance: 8.5.6-106, 9.5.0-201

References

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=39940
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032961
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=39940
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032961

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