CVE-2022-20868

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 4.7
EPSS
EPSS 0.76 % · percentile 55 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

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

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Applianceaffected 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
Cisco · Cisco Secure Emailaffected 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 Manageraffected 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

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD