Vulnerability · Published Feb 5, 2025 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2025-20184Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance Command Injection Vulnerability
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity improper input validation 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).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Secure Email | 14.0.0-69813.5.1-27713.0.0-39214.2.0-62013.0.5-00713.5.4-03814.2.1-02014.3.0-032 |
| Cisco | Cisco Secure Web Appliance | 11.8.0-45312.5.3-00212.0.3-00712.0.3-00514.1.0-03214.1.0-04714.1.0-04112.0.4-002 |
Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N