Description
The mailguard feature in Cisco Secure PIX Firewall 5.2(2) and earlier does not properly restrict access to SMTP commands, which allows remote attackers to execute restricted commands by sending a DATA command before sending the restricted commands.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- partial
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- CISCO
- Published
- 12/11/2000
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
cisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_softwarecisco : pix_firewall_software
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