Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance Command Injection Vulnerability

6.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection attacks against an affected device. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of XML configuration files by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted XML configuration file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject commands to the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-esa-sma-wsa-multi-yKUJhS34

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Affected Software

Cisco Secure Email, Cisco Secure Web Appliance

Vulnerable Versions:

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, 15.5.3-022, 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, 15.0.0-322, 12.5.6-008, 15.1.0-287, 14.5.2-011, 15.2.0-116, 14.0.5-007, 15.2.0-164, 14.5.1-510, 12.0.2-012, 12.0.2-004, 14.5.1-607, 14.5.3-033, 15.0.1-004, 15.2.1-011, 14.5.0-673, 14.5.0-537, 12.0.1-334, 14.0.1-503, 14.0.1-053, 11.8.0-429, 14.0.1-040, 14.0.1-014, 12.5.1-043