SARA / Free Tools / CVE / CVE-2023-20009

CVE-2023-20009 — A vulnerability in the Web UI and administrative CLI of the Cisco Secure Email G

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 a

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.24% (top 53.30%)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
2023-02-16T15:25:13.820Z
Last modified
2024-08-02T08:57:35.597Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
CiscoCisco Secure Email11.0.3-238, 11.1.0-069, 11.1.0-131, 11.1.0-128, 12.0.0-419, 12.1.0-071, 12.1.0-087, 12.1.0-089, 13.0.0-392, 13.5.1-277, 12.5.0-066, 14.0.0-698, 14.2.0-620
CiscoCisco Secure Email and Web Manager11.0.0-115, 11.0.1-161, 11.5.1-105, 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, 14.2.0-212

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

Want this in your SOAR or SIEM?
SARA's API returns EPSS, CVSS, KEV, and an analyst-grade summary in one call.
Read the API reference →