CVE-2022-20952

MEDIUM
5.3
CVSS Score
Published: February 16, 2023 at 03:27 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:25 AM UTC
5 products affected across 1 vendorAsyncosS195S395

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Severity
MEDIUM5.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

Description

A vulnerability in the scanning engines of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Web Appliance, formerly known as Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured rule, thereby allowing traffic onto a network that should have been blocked. This vulnerability exists because malformed, encoded traffic is not properly detected. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting through an affected device to a malicious server and receiving malformed HTTP responses. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass an explicit block rule and receive traffic that should have been rejected by the device.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

11.8 ≤ v < 14.0.414.5.0
Affected range stops below 14.0.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
cisco-s195 (environment) · cisco-s395 (environment) · cisco-s695 (environment)
80%
All versions
80%
All versions
80%
All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

5.3MEDIUMcisco
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20NVD-CWE-noinfo

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