CVE-2024-20504: Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Secure Email Gateway, and Secure Web Appliance Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.29% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Secure Email Gateway, and Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the interface. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user of an affected interface to click a crafted link. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected interface or access sensitive, browser-based information.
- Published
- Nov 6, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 22th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-80
Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · cisco
- 5.4
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
- No fixed version yet
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Is your version affected?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | asyncos | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:asyncos |
| cisco | secure email gateway virtual appliance c100v | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway_virtual_appliance_c100v |
| cisco | secure email gateway virtual appliance c300v | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway_virtual_appliance_c300v |
| cisco | secure email gateway virtual appliance c600v | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway_virtual_appliance_c600v |
| cisco | secure email gateway c195 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:secure_email_gateway_c195 |
| cisco | secure email gateway c395 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:secure_email_gateway_c395 |
| cisco | secure email gateway c695 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:secure_email_gateway_c695 |
| cisco | secure email and web manager virtual appliance m100v | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_and_web_manager_virtual_appliance_m100v |
| cisco | secure email and web manager virtual appliance m300v | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_and_web_manager_virtual_appliance_m300v |
| cisco | secure email and web manager virtual appliance m600v | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_and_web_manager_virtual_appliance_m600v |
| cisco | secure email and web manager m170 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:secure_email_and_web_manager_m170 |
| cisco | secure email and web manager m190 | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:secure_email_and_web_manager_m190 |
and 16 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco asyncos14.0.0-404
- cisco asyncos14.0.0-698
- cisco asyncos14.0.2-012
- cisco asyncos14.0.3-014
- cisco asyncos14.0.4-005
- cisco asyncos14.0.5-007
- cisco asyncos14.1.0-032
- cisco asyncos14.1.0-041
- cisco asyncos14.1.0-047
- cisco asyncos14.1.0-223
- cisco asyncos14.1.0-227
- cisco asyncos14.2.0-212
- cisco asyncos14.2.0-224
- cisco asyncos14.2.0-620
- cisco asyncos14.2.1-020
- cisco asyncos14.3.0-032
- cisco asyncos14.3.0-120
- cisco asyncos14.5.0-498
- cisco asyncos14.5.1-008
- cisco asyncos14.5.1-016
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (cisco). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Cisco Cisco Secure Email
- 14.0.0-698, 14.2.0-620, 14.2.1-020, 14.3.0-032, 15.0.0-104, 15.0.1-030, 15.5.0-048, 15.5.1-055affected
Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
- 14.0.0-404, 14.1.0-223, 14.1.0-227, 14.2.0-212, 14.2.0-224, 14.2.1-020, 14.3.0-120, 15.0.0-334, 15.5.1-024, 15.5.1-029affected
Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance
- 14.1.0-032, 14.1.0-047, 14.1.0-041, 14.0.2-012, 14.5.0-498, 14.0.3-014, 14.0.4-005, 14.5.1-008, 14.5.1-016, 15.0.0-355, 15.0.0-322, 15.1.0-287 … (+7)affected
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-20429Jul 17, 2024 · A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Secure Email Gateway could allow an authenticated, remote attacke28Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-20435Jul 17, 2024 · A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco AsyncOS for Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary comma31Monitor
- Later →CVE-2022-20871Nov 15, 2024 · Cisco Secure Web Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability36Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- A user must open a link or visit a page.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- low · data can be read
- Integrity
- low · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- Low
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-80 · Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS)CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.