Cisco Secure Email up to 14.2.1-020 Web-based Management Interface command injection

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Secure Email. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web-based Management Interface. Such manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-20429. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Secure Email. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Web-based Management Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Secure Email Gateway could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation in certain portions of the web-based management interface. 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. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need at least valid Operator credentials.

The advisory is shared for download at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-20429 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. 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 08/08/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Secure Email

Version

• 11.0.3-238
• 11.1.0-069
• 11.1.0-128
• 11.1.0-131
• 12.0.0-419
• 12.1.0-071
• 12.1.0-087
• 12.1.0-089
• 12.5.0-066
• 12.5.3-041
• 12.5.4-041
• 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

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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