CVE-2022-20942

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.5
EPSS
EPSS 0.98 % · percentile 62 (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 (ESA), Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, and Cisco Secure Web Appliance, formerly known as Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information from an affected device, including user credentials. This vulnerability is due to weak enforcement of back-end authorization checks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain confidential data that is stored on the affected device.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Applianceaffected 11.7.0-406 ; affected 11.7.0-418 ; affected 11.7.1-049 ; affected 11.7.1-006 ; affected 11.7.1-020 ; affected 11.7.2-011
Cisco · Cisco Secure Emailaffected 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
Cisco · Cisco Secure Email and Web Manageraffected 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

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
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