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CVE-2025-20184: Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance Command Injection Vulnerability
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
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
- Cisco Asyncos: 13.0.0-392, 13.0.5-007, 13.5.1-277, 13.5.4-038, 14.0.0-698, 14.2.0-620 (+62)
References
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