CVE-2025-20184
Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance Command Injection Vulnerability
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.88%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 41% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform command injection attacks against an affected device. The attacker must authenticate with valid administrator credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of XML configuration files by an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted XML configuration file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject commands to the underlying operating system with root privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By cisco
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.88% · top 41% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
- affected 14.0.0-698
- affected 13.5.1-277
- affected 13.0.0-392
- affected 14.2.0-620
- affected 13.0.5-007
- affected 13.5.4-038
- affected 14.2.1-020
- affected 14.3.0-032
- affected 15.0.0-104
- affected 15.0.1-030
- affected 15.5.0-048
- affected 15.5.1-055
- affected 15.5.2-018
- affected 15.0.3-002
- affected 15.5.3-022
Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Appliance
- affected 11.8.0-453
- affected 12.5.3-002
- affected 12.0.3-007
- affected 12.0.3-005
- affected 14.1.0-032
- affected 14.1.0-047
- affected 14.1.0-041
- affected 12.0.4-002
- affected 14.0.2-012
- affected 11.8.0-414
- affected 12.0.1-268
- affected 11.8.1-023
- affected 11.8.3-021
- affected 11.8.3-018
- affected 12.5.1-011
- affected 11.8.4-004
- affected 12.5.2-007
- affected 12.5.2-011
- affected 14.5.0-498
- affected 12.5.4-005
- affected 12.5.4-011
- affected 12.0.5-011
- affected 14.0.3-014
- affected 12.5.5-004
- affected 12.5.5-005
- affected 12.5.5-008
- affected 14.0.4-005
- affected 14.5.1-008
- affected 14.5.1-016
- affected 15.0.0-355
- affected 15.0.0-322
- affected 12.5.6-008
- affected 15.1.0-287
- affected 14.5.2-011
- affected 15.2.0-116
- affected 14.0.5-007
- affected 15.2.0-164
- affected 14.5.1-510
- affected 12.0.2-012
- affected 12.0.2-004
- and 13 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-2172 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
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