Vulnerability · Published Feb 16, 2023 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2023-20075

Medium 6.0

In plain English

A medium-severity command injection in Cisco Secure Email from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.0Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

Vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands. These vulnerability is due to improper input validation in the CLI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting operating system commands into a legitimate command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted command prompt and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid Administrator credentials.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Cisco Cisco Secure Email 13.0.0-39213.5.1-27712.5.0-06614.0.0-69814.2.0-620

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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