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CVE-2025-20393

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

CVSS 3.1 Critical 10.0Known exploited (CISA KEV)

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

Description

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.

Official description from the CVE record, published by cisco. Copyright © 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. See /security/cve/legal for the CVE license. View the record on cve.org

Key data

CVSS 3.1 Critical 10.0

Score published by cisco in the CVE record.

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

  • Attack vector: Network

    The vulnerable component can be reached over a network, possibly from the Internet.

  • Attack complexity: Low

    No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will.

  • Privileges required: None

    No account or privileges are needed.

  • User interaction: None

    No action from any user is needed.

  • Scope: Changed

    The impact can reach other components beyond the vulnerable one.

  • Confidentiality impact: High

    Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.

  • Integrity impact: High

    Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data.

  • Availability impact: High

    Serious or total effect on availability.

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EPSS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST: an estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days.
Score
0.32392 (32.4% probability)
Percentile
98.3%
Scores of
Nov 10, 2026
Model
v2026.06.15

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

This CVE is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Name in the catalog
Cisco Multiple Products Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Added to the catalog
Dec 17, 2025
Federal due date
Dec 24, 2025

CISA assessment as of Dec 18, 2025

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision points added by CISA.
Exploitation
Recorded by CISA as active
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total

Weakness (CWE)

CWE catalog version 5.0.
CWE names: Copyright © 2006-2026, The MITRE Corporation. See /security/cve/legal for the CWE license.
  • CWE-20Improper Input Validation

Affected products

Products listed in the CVE record, as the CNA published them.

  • Cisco Secure Email

    • affected: 14.0.0-698
    • affected: 13.5.1-277
    • affected: 13.0.0-392
    • affected: 14.2.0-620
    • affected: 13.0.5-007
    • affected: 13.5.4-038
    • affected: 14.2.1-020
    • affected: 14.3.0-032
    • affected: 15.0.0-104
    • affected: 15.0.1-030
    • affected: 15.5.0-048
    • affected: 15.5.1-055
    • affected: 15.5.2-018
    • affected: 16.0.0-050
    • affected: 15.0.3-002
    • affected: 16.0.0-054
    • affected: 15.5.3-022
    • affected: 16.0.1-017

  • Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

    • affected: 13.6.2-023
    • affected: 13.6.2-078
    • affected: 13.0.0-249
    • affected: 13.0.0-277
    • affected: 13.8.1-052
    • affected: 13.8.1-068
    • affected: 13.8.1-074
    • affected: 14.0.0-404
    • affected: 12.8.1-002
    • affected: 14.1.0-227
    • affected: 13.6.1-201
    • affected: 14.2.0-203
    • affected: 14.2.0-212
    • affected: 12.8.1-021
    • affected: 13.8.1-108
    • affected: 14.2.0-224
    • affected: 14.3.0-120
    • affected: 15.0.0-334
    • affected: 15.5.1-024
    • affected: 15.5.1-029
    • affected: 15.5.2-005
    • affected: 16.0.0-195
    • affected: 15.5.3-017
    • affected: 16.0.1-010
    • affected: 15.0.1-035
    • and 1 more

References

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Timeline

  1. ID reserved
  2. Added to CISA KEV
  3. Record published
  4. Record last updated

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