Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Secure Email Gateway, and Secure Web Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
A vulnerability in the implementation of the remote access functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Cisco Secure Email Gateway, and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. This vulnerability is due to an architectural flaw in the password generation algorithm for the remote access functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by generating a temporary password for the service account. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root and access the underlying operating system. Note: The Security Impact Rating (SIR) for this vulnerability is Medium due to the unrestricted scope of information that is accessible to an attacker.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- Cisco Cisco Secure Email
14.0.0-698, 13.5.1-277, 13.0.0-392, 14.2.0-620, 13.0.5-007, 13.5.4-038, 14.2.1-020, 14.3.0-032, 15.0.0-104, 15.0.1-030, 15.5.0-048, 15.5.1-055, 15.5.2-018, 15.0.3-002
- Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
13.6.2-023, 13.6.2-078, 13.0.0-249, 13.0.0-277, 13.8.1-052, 13.8.1-068, 13.8.1-074, 14.0.0-404, 12.8.1-002, 14.1.0-227, 13.6.1-201, 14.2.0-203, 14.2.0-212, 12.8.1-021, 13.8.1-108, 14.2.0-224, 14.3.0-120, 15.0.0-334, 15.5.1-024, 15.5.1-029, 15.5.2-005
- Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance
11.8.0-453, 12.5.3-002, 12.0.3-007, 12.0.3-005, 14.1.0-032, 14.1.0-047, 14.1.0-041, 12.0.4-002, 14.0.2-012, 11.8.0-414, 12.0.1-268, 11.8.1-023, 11.8.3-021, 11.8.3-018, 12.5.1-011, 11.8.4-004, 12.5.2-007, 12.5.2-011, 14.5.0-498, 12.5.4-005, 12.5.4-011, 12.0.5-011, 14.0.3-014, 12.5.5-004, 12.5.5-005, 12.5.5-008, 14.0.4-005, 14.5.1-008, 14.5.1-016, 15.0.0-355, and 23 more