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CVE-2019-15988

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-15988 describes a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass URL reputation filters. This is due to insufficient input validation, enabling malicious URLs to pass through the device. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring no user interaction, and could lead to a loss of integrity by allowing malicious content past security controls. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 12.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:email_security_appliance_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.8MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0101 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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-20191120-esa-url-bypass
Vendor Advisory