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CVE-2018-0140

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-0140 describes a vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Content Security Management Appliance. An authenticated, remote attacker could exploit a lack of user account verification by modifying browser strings to download any message from the spam quarantine, including those belonging to other users within the same company. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a low attack complexity and high confidentiality impact, but no integrity or availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.8.0-112CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:email_security_appliance_firmware:9.8.0-112:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.1-087CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:email_security_appliance_firmware:10.0.1-087:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.0-274CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:email_security_appliance_firmware:11.0.0-274:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.0-096CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:content_security_management_appliance:10.0.0-096:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.1.0-037CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:content_security_management_appliance:10.1.0-037:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0156 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180207-esacsm
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/103090
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040338
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040339
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry