A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Email Security Appliance (Anti-Malware Software) (affected version unknown). Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Web Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the web management interface of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance (SMA), and Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) external authentication server connected to an affected device. This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input sanitization while querying the external authentication server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted query through an external authentication web page. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain access to sensitive information, including user credentials from the external authentication server. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid operator-level (or higher) credentials.

The weakness was published 06/16/2022 by Cisco Security as cisco-sa-esasma-info-dsc-Q9tLuOvM. The advisory is shared for download at tools.cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-20664 since 11/02/2021. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/16/2022). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

Productinfo

Type

• Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Email Security Appliance
• Secure Email and Web Manager

License

• commercial

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Discussion