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CVE-2025-20393

Cisco Cisco Secure Email — Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Description · from the CVE record

A vulnerability in the Spam Quarantine feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on an affected device with root privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of HTTP requests by the Spam Quarantine feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Cisco Secure Email14.0.0-698–CNA
Cisco Secure Email13.5.1-277–CNA
Cisco Secure Email13.0.0-392–CNA
Cisco Secure Email14.2.0-620–CNA
Cisco Secure Email13.0.5-007–CNA
Cisco Secure Email13.5.4-038–CNA
Cisco Secure Email14.2.1-020–CNA
Cisco Secure Email14.3.0-032–CNA
Cisco Secure Email15.0.0-104–CNA
Cisco Secure Email15.0.1-030–CNA
Cisco Secure Email15.5.0-048–CNA
Cisco Secure Email15.5.1-055–CNA

Scores by source

cisco (CNA)10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refsec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sma-attack-N9bf4refcisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-20393kevcisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog