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Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE ListKnown exploited1 source record

A vulnerability in the Spam Quarantine feature of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on an affected device with root privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of HTTP requests by the Spam Quarantine feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

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CVE-2025-20393

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2025-20393

Cisco Secure Email

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Prerequisites
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Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/1/product

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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        "status": "affected",
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      },
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "13.0.0-392"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "14.2.0-620"
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "13.0.5-007"
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "13.5.4-038"
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "14.2.1-020"
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      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "14.3.0-032"
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        "status": "affected",
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      {
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      {
        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "version": "16.0.2-088"
      }
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  }
]
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CVE-2025-20393

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Publisher severity

critical

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CVE-2025-20393 · Unrated

Multiple Products · Known exploited (CISA KEV)

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