Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance Command Injection Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Secure Email)

CVE-2025-20184
MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.86 % · percentile 59 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection attacks against an affected device. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of XML configuration files by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted XML configuration file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject commands to the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-77 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Emailaffected 14.0.0-698 ; affected 13.5.1-277 ; affected 13.0.0-392 ; affected 14.2.0-620 ; affected 13.0.5-007 ; affected 13.5.4-038
Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Applianceaffected 11.8.0-453 ; affected 12.5.3-002 ; affected 12.0.3-007 ; affected 12.0.3-005 ; affected 14.1.0-032 ; affected 14.1.0-047

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD