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CVE-2023-20009

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 authen…

Impact

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 vulnerability is due to the processing of a specially crafted SNMP configuration file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the targeted device and uploading a specially crafted SNMP configuration file that when uploaded could allow for the execution of commands as root. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain root access on the device.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CiscoEmail Security Appliance
before 12.5.3-041
from 13.0.0 before 13.0.5-007
from 13.5.0 before 13.5.4-038
from 14.0.0 before 14.2.1-020
from 14.3.0 before 14.3.0-032
CiscoSecure Email And Web Manager
before 12.8.1-021
from 13.8.0 before 13.8.1-108
from 14.0.0 before 14.2.0-224
from 14.3.0 before 14.3.0-120

Weakness classification

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