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CVE-2025-20393

Published 2025-12-17 · published (not yet in NVD)

CVE-2025-20393

Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild: CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-12-17, with a fix-by date of 2025-12-24. Patch it first.

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

10.0 CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1 · CNA
32%
chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS; higher than 98% of CVEs)

A vulnerability in the Spam Quarantine feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on an affected device with root privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of HTTP requests by the Spam Quarantine feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Scores

Affected products

  • Cisco Cisco Secure Email: 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; 16.0.0-050; 15.0.3-002; 16.0.0-054; 15.5.3-022; 16.0.1-017
  • Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager: 13.6.2-023; 13.6.2-078; 13.0.0-249; 13.0.0-277; 13.8.1-052; 13.8.1-068; 13.8.1-074; 14.0.0-404; 12.8.1-002; 14.1.0-227; 13.6.1-201; 14.2.0-203; 14.2.0-212; 12.8.1-021; 13.8.1-108; 14.2.0-224; 14.3.0-120; 15.0.0-334; 15.5.1-024; 15.5.1-029; 15.5.2-005; 16.0.0-195; 15.5.3-017; 16.0.1-010; 15.0.1-035; 16.0.2-088

Weakness: CWE-20

1 references (advisories, patches, write-ups)

Sources: CVE.org, FIRST EPSS. Missing ones did not answer or have no record yet.

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