CVE-2022-20871

Summary

A vulnerability in the web management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Web Appliance, formerly Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a command injection and elevate privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input for the web interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the system and sending a crafted HTTP packet to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need at least read-only credentials.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.Attention: Simplifying the Cisco portfolio includes the renaming of security products under one brand: Cisco Secure. For more information, see .

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.3-002affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance14.1.0-032affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance14.1.0-047affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance14.1.0-041affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance14.0.2-012affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.1-011affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.2-007affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.2-011affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance14.5.0-498affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.4-005affected
CiscoCisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.4-011affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References