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CVE-2020-3548

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3548 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco AsyncOS software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) due to inefficient processing of incoming TLS traffic. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending crafted TLS packets, leading to high CPU usage and degraded performance. Rated 7.5 HIGH, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and no known workarounds. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 13.5.1-277CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:email_security_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0081 is in the 28th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-esa-tls-dos-xW53TBhb
Vendor Advisory