Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager and Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges on an affected system. The attacker needs valid credentials to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to the use of a hardcoded value to encrypt a token used for certain APIs calls . An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to impersonate another valid user and execute commands with the privileges of that user account.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance
11.8.0-414affected11.8.1-023affected11.8.3-018affected11.8.3-021affected12.0.1-268affected12.0.3-007affected12.5.2-007affected12.5.1-011affected12.5.4-005affected14.5.0-498affected14.0.2-012affected
Cisco Cisco Secure Email
13.0.0-392affected13.5.1-277affected14.0.0-698affected14.2.0-620affected
Cisco Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager
12.0.0-452affected12.0.1-011affected12.5.0-636affected12.5.0-658affected12.5.0-678affected12.5.0-670affected13.0.0-277affected13.6.2-078affected13.8.1-068affected13.8.1-074affected12.8.1-002affected14.0.0-404affected14.1.0-223affected14.1.0-227affected