Vulnerability 22161 - CERT Civis.Net

Vulnerability Name:

CCN-22161

Published:

2005-09-07

Updated:

2005-09-07

Summary:

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by a vulnerability with the scanning or cleaning of email messages containing attachments that are zipped files (and deeply nested). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability and cause Brightmail to go beyond the set time for scanning a message and cause the message to be delivered without the scanning or cleaning process being completed.

CVSS v3 Severity:

5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Exploitability Metrics:	Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:	Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Low

CVSS v2 Severity:

5.0 Medium (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Exploitability Metrics:	Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Low Athentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:	Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availibility (A): Partial