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CVE-2023-20009

Published: Feb 16, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Secure Email

affected
11.0.3-238
affected
11.1.0-069
affected
11.1.0-131
affected
11.1.0-128
affected
12.0.0-419

+8 more versions

Cisco

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

affected
11.0.0-115
affected
11.0.1-161
affected
11.5.1-105
affected
12.0.0-452
affected
12.0.1-011

+13 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

References

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