CVE-2025-20184

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

Severity
Medium 6.5
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.008
54.5th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Feb 5, 2025
Assigned by cisco

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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Secure Email Gateway Email Security cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance SASE / SSE / Secure Web cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Email
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Appliance