{"id":"CVE-2013-5537","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2013-5537","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:52:27.909Z","title":"The web framework on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices does not properly manage the state of HTTP and HTTPS sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a…","description":"The web framework on Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Email Security Appliance (ESA), and Content Security Management Appliance (SMA) devices does not properly manage the state of HTTP and HTTPS sessions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (management GUI outage) via multiple TCP connections, aka Bug IDs CSCuj59411, CSCuf89818, and CSCuh05635.","published":"2013-10-24T10:53:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:58:59.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@cisco.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["cisco/web security appliance","cisco/content security management appliance","cisco/email security appliance firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.01328,"percentile":0.70811,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5537","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@cisco.com"},{"url":"http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5537","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5537","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}