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)…
- Published
- Updated
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- cisco
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 11.0.3-238
- affected 11.1.0-069
- affected 11.1.0-131
- affected 11.1.0-128
- affected 12.0.0-419
- affected 12.1.0-071
- affected 12.1.0-087
- affected 12.1.0-089
- affected 13.0.0-392
- affected 13.5.1-277
- affected 12.5.0-066
- affected 14.0.0-698
- affected 14.2.0-620
Cisco · Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
- affected 11.0.0-115
- affected 11.0.1-161
- affected 11.5.1-105
- 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
- affected 14.2.0-212
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is aware that proof-of-concept exploit code is available for the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory. The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any 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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
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