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CVE-2025-20184· NVD / CVE Program· CNA cisco

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance Command Injection Vulnerability

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 28/100)

  • 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: 0.86% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 57.9% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. 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 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.

HighCVSS 7.2 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Feb 5, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.8% · 57th percentile

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Action score

28

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.8%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
7.2
CNA · cisco
6.5
0.7 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
ciscoasyncos
ciscosecure email gateway virtual appliance c100v
ciscosecure email gateway virtual appliance c300v
ciscosecure email gateway virtual appliance c600v
ciscosecure email gateway c195
ciscosecure email gateway c395
ciscosecure email gateway c695
ciscosecure web appliance virtual s1000v
ciscosecure web appliance virtual s100v
ciscosecure web appliance virtual s300v
ciscosecure web appliance virtual s600v
ciscosecure web appliance s196

and 2 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • cisco asyncos11.8.0-414
  • cisco asyncos11.8.0-429
  • cisco asyncos11.8.0-453
  • cisco asyncos11.8.1-023
  • cisco asyncos11.8.3-018
  • cisco asyncos11.8.3-021
  • cisco asyncos11.8.4-004
  • cisco asyncos12.0.1-268
  • cisco asyncos12.0.1-334
  • cisco asyncos12.0.2-004
  • cisco asyncos12.0.2-012
  • cisco asyncos12.0.3-005
  • cisco asyncos12.0.3-007
  • cisco asyncos12.0.4-002
  • cisco asyncos12.0.5-011
  • cisco asyncos12.5.1-011
  • cisco asyncos12.5.1-043
  • cisco asyncos12.5.2-007
  • cisco asyncos12.5.2-011
  • cisco asyncos12.5.3-002

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, 13.5.1-277, 13.0.0-392, 14.2.0-620, 13.0.5-007, 13.5.4-038, 14.2.1-020, 14.3.0-032, 15.0.0-104, 15.0.1-030, 15.5.0-048, 15.5.1-055 … (+3)affected

  • Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance

    • 11.8.0-453, 12.5.3-002, 12.0.3-007, 12.0.3-005, 14.1.0-032, 14.1.0-047, 14.1.0-041, 12.0.4-002, 14.0.2-012, 11.8.0-414, 12.0.1-268, 11.8.1-023 … (+28)affected

Same product

cisco: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2025-20393Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Remote Command Execution VulnerabilityKEV
    80Now
  • CVE-2026-76461Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection VulnerabilityKEV
    78This week
  • CVE-2026-76519Cisco Secure Email Gateway Arbitrary File Write VulnerabilityKEV
    69This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-20180Feb 5, 2025 · Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Email Gateway Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
    19Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-20183Feb 5, 2025 · Cisco Secure Web Appliance Range Request Bypass Vulnerability
    21Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-20185Feb 5, 2025 · Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, Secure Email Gateway, and Secure Web Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
    26Monitor

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.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

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 researchers

Finders, 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.

  • CVE-2025-20393315 days apartCisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Remote Command Execution VulnerabilityKEV
    80Now
  • CVE-2025-201830 days apartCisco Secure Web Appliance Range Request Bypass Vulnerability
    21Monitor

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.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

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.

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