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CVE-2019-1905

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-1905 describes a medium-severity vulnerability in the GZIP decompression engine of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA). This flaw, caused by improper validation of GZIP-formatted files, allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured content filters by sending a malicious file within a crafted GZIP-compressed email. The attack requires no user interaction and has a low impact on integrity, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:11.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:12.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0136 is in the 50th 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-20190619-esa-bypass
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/108856
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry