CVE-2023-20009
A vulnerability in the Web UI and administrative CLI of the Cisco Secure Email Gateway (ESA) and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (SMA) could allow an authenticated remote attacker and or authenticated local attacker to escalate their privilege level and gain root access. The attacker has to have a valid user credential with at least a [[privilege of operator - validate actual name]]. The vulnerability is due to the processing of a specially crafted SNMP configuration file. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the targeted device and uploading a specially crafted SNMP configuration file that when uploaded could allow for the execution of commands as root. An exploit could allow the attacker to gain root access on the device.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 1.3% (69th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2023-24188)
- Published
- March 1, 2023
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2023-24188 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 2, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- cisco / email security appliance
- cisco / secure email and web manager
Certified products that may be affected
3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Cisco Email Security Appliance 9.8 - Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10798-2017 - archived
- Cisco Email Security Appliance v9.1 - Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10631-2015 - archived
- IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA), comprising the C160, C370, X1060, and X1070 appliance models, running IronPort AsyncOS software, version 7.1, and the C670 appliance model running IronPort AsyncOS version 7.3 - Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-10438-2010 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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