CVE-2022-20868 (GCVE-0-2022-20868)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-03 19:29 – Updated: 2024-08-03 02:24
VLAI?
Summary
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges on an affected system. The attacker needs valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
This vulnerability is due to the use of a hardcoded value to encrypt a token used for certain APIs calls . An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate another valid user and execute commands with the privileges of that user account.
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-321 - Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||
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| Cisco | Cisco Secure Web Appliance |
Affected:
11.8.0-414
Affected: 11.8.1-023 Affected: 11.8.3-018 Affected: 11.8.3-021 Affected: 12.0.1-268 Affected: 12.0.3-007 Affected: 12.5.2-007 Affected: 12.5.1-011 Affected: 12.5.4-005 Affected: 14.5.0-498 Affected: 14.0.2-012 |
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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