CVE-2023-20009

Summary

A vulnerability in the Web UI and administrative CLI of the Cisco Secure Email Gateway (ESA) and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (SMA) could allow an authenticated remote attacker and or authenticated local attacker to escalate their privilege level and gain root access. The attacker has to have a valid user credential with at least a [[privilege of operator - validate actual name]]. The vulnerability is due to the processing of a specially crafted SNMP configuration file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the targeted device and uploading a specially crafted SNMP configuration file that when uploaded could allow for the execution of commands as root. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain root access on the device.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.0.3-238affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.1.0-069affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.1.0-131affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.1.0-128affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.0.0-419affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.1.0-071affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.1.0-087affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.1.0-089affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email13.0.0-392affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email13.5.1-277affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email12.5.0-066affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email14.0.0-698affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email14.2.0-620affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager11.0.0-115affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager11.0.1-161affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager11.5.1-105affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.0.0-452affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.0.1-011affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.5.0-636affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.5.0-658affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.5.0-678affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.5.0-670affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager13.0.0-277affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager13.6.2-078affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager13.8.1-068affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager13.8.1-074affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager12.8.1-002affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager14.0.0-404affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager14.1.0-223affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager14.1.0-227affected
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager14.2.0-212affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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