MEDIUM
Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Secure Email Gateway, and Secure Web Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Published Feb 5, 2025
6.7
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.19%
Description
A vulnerability in the implementation of the remote access functionality of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Cisco Secure Email Gateway, and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. This vulnerability is due to an architectural flaw in the password generation algorithm for the remote access functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by generating a temporary password for the service account. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root and access the underlying operating system. Note: The Security Impact Rating (SIR) for this vulnerability is Medium due to the unrestricted scope of information that is accessible to an attacker.
Affected products
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- Version 13.0.0-392StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.0.5-007StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.5.1-277StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.5.4-038StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.0-698StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.2.0-620StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.2.1-020StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.3.0-032StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.0-104StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.1-030StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.3-002StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.5.0-048StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.5.1-055StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.5.2-018StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
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- Version 12.8.1-002StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.8.1-021StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.0.0-249StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.0.0-277StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.6.1-201StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.6.2-023StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.6.2-078StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.8.1-052StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.8.1-068StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.8.1-074StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 13.8.1-108StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.0-404StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.1.0-227StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.2.0-203StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.2.0-212StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.2.0-224StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.3.0-120StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.0-334StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.5.1-024StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.5.1-029StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.5.2-005StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
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- Version 11.8.0-414StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 11.8.0-429StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 11.8.0-453StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 11.8.1-023StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 11.8.3-018StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 11.8.3-021StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 11.8.4-004StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.1-268StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.1-334StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.2-004StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.2-012StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.3-005StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.3-007StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.4-002StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.0.5-011StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.1-011StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.1-043StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.2-007StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.2-011StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.3-002StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.4-005StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.4-011StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.5-004StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.5-005StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.5-008StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 12.5.6-008StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.1-014StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.1-040StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.1-053StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.1-503StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.2-012StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.3-014StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.4-005StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.0.5-007StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.1.0-032StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.1.0-041StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.1.0-047StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.0-498StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.0-537StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.0-673StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.1-008StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.1-016StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.1-510StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.1-607StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.2-011StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 14.5.3-033StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.0-322StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.0-355StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.0.1-004StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.1.0-287StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.2.0-116StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.2.0-164StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version 15.2.1-011StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Cisco | Cisco Secure Email | n/a |
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| Cisco | Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager | n/a |
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| Cisco | Cisco Secure Web Appliance | n/a |
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AND
OR
- 13.0.0-392
- 13.0.5-007
- 13.5.1-277
- 13.5.4-038
- 14.0.0-698
- 14.2.0-620
- 14.2.1-020
- 14.3.0-032
- 15.0.0-104
- 15.0.1-030
- 15.0.3-002
- 15.5.0-048
- 15.5.1-055
- 15.5.2-018
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No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (1)
References (1)
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Feb 5, 2025
Updated Feb 5, 2025
Reserved Oct 10, 2024
Link CVE-2025-20185
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Feb 5, 2025