Command Injection Vulnerability in Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Web Appliance
CVE-2025-20184

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Cisco
Status
Cisco Secure Email
Cisco Secure Web Appliance
Vendor
CVE Published:
5 February 2025

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the web management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software, impacting Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Web Appliance. This weakness arises from inadequate validation of XML configuration files, permitting an authenticated, remote attacker with valid administrative credentials to perform command injection attacks. By uploading a specially crafted XML configuration file, the attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the host operating system with root privileges, potentially compromising the entire system.

Affected Version(s)

Cisco Secure Email 14.0.0-698

Cisco Secure Email 13.5.1-277

Cisco Secure Email 13.0.0-392

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/C...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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