CVE-2021-1566
A vulnerability in the Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints integration of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to intercept traffic between an affected device and the AMP servers. This vulnerability is due to improper certificate validation when an affected device establishes TLS connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted TLS packet to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to spoof a trusted host and then extract sensitive information or alter certain API requests.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.4 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-296
- EPSS score
- 0.7% (51th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2021-7033)
- Published
- June 16, 2021
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2021-7033 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on November 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- cisco / asyncos
- cisco / email security appliance
- cisco / web security appliance
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA), comprising the C160, C370, X1060, and X1070 appliance models, running IronPort AsyncOS software, version 7.1, and the C670 appliance model running IronPort AsyncOS version 7.3 - Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10438-2010 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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