CVE-2024-20429

HIGH

7.2

CVSS Score

Published: July 17, 2024 at 04:29 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:07 AM UTC

8 products affected across 1 vendorAsyncosSecure Email Gateway Virtual Appliance C300VSecure Email Gateway C695

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Severity

HIGH7.2

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.6%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Secure Email Gateway could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation in certain portions of the web-based management interface. 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. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need at least valid Operator credentials.

Affected

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

Asyncos · Cisco

95%

11.0.3-238 11.1.0-128 11.1.0-131 11.1.0-69 12.0.0-419 12.1.0-71 12.1.0-87 12.1.0-89 12.5.0-66 12.5.3-41 12.5.4-41 13.0.0-392 13.0.5-7 13.5.1-277 13.5.4-38 14.0.0-698 14.2.0-620 14.2.1-20

cisco-secure-email-gateway-c195 (environment) · cisco-secure-email-gateway-c395 (environment) · cisco-secure-email-gateway-c695 (environment) · cisco-secure-email-gateway-virtual-appliance-c100v (environment) · cisco-secure-email-gateway-virtual-appliance-c300v (environment) · cisco-secure-email-gateway-virtual-appliance-c600v (environment)