CVE-2022-208716.3MediumCWE-78

CVE-2022-20871: Cisco Secure Web Appliance Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Appliance

Affected: Cisco Secure Web Appliance · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

1.9%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

80th percentile

050100

Higher than 80% of scored CVEs

6.3MediumCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

A vulnerability in the web management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Web Appliance, formerly Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a command injection and elevate privileges to root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input for the web interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the system and sending a crafted HTTP packet to the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system and elevate privileges to root. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need at least read-only credentials.Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.Attention: Simplifying the Cisco portfolio includes the renaming of security products under one brand: Cisco Secure. For more information, see .

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

Cisco · Cisco Secure Web Appliance12.5.3-002; 14.1.0-032; 14.1.0-047; 14.1.0-041; 14.0.2-012; 12.5.1-011 and 5 more

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: OS Command Injection · Command and Code Injection
Vendor: Cisco
Published: November 2024
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), November 2024

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