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GHSA-9PPW-7P8W-H9G2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-19 18:32 – Updated: 2025-02-19 18:32

Details

This vulnerability is due to improper handling of email that passes through an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass email filters on the affected device.

Severity

5.8 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2025-20153 (GCVE-0-2025-20153)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-19 16:06 – Updated: 2025-02-19 16:19

Title

Cisco ESA mail Bypass

Summary

A vulnerability in the email filtering mechanism of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured rules and allow emails that should have been denied to flow through an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of email that passes through an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass email filters on the affected device.

Severity

5.8 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-19 16:19 UTC

CWE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

cisco mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/c…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Cisco	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

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