CVE-2022-20868
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Cisco…
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- cisco
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges on an affected system. The attacker needs valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to the use of a hardcoded value to encrypt a token used for certain APIs calls . An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate another valid user and execute commands with the privileges of that user account.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.80% · top 43% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Appliance
- affected 11.8.0-414
- affected 11.8.1-023
- affected 11.8.3-018
- affected 11.8.3-021
- affected 12.0.1-268
- affected 12.0.3-007
- affected 12.5.2-007
- affected 12.5.1-011
- affected 12.5.4-005
- affected 14.5.0-498
- affected 14.0.2-012
- affected 13.0.0-392
- affected 13.5.1-277
- affected 14.0.0-698
- affected 14.2.0-620
Cisco · Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
- affected 12.0.0-452
- affected 12.0.1-011
- affected 12.5.0-636
- affected 12.5.0-658
- affected 12.5.0-678
- affected 12.5.0-670
- affected 13.0.0-277
- affected 13.6.2-078
- affected 13.8.1-068
- affected 13.8.1-074
- affected 12.8.1-002
- affected 14.0.0-404
- affected 14.1.0-223
- affected 14.1.0-227
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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