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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-19 16:06 – Updated: 2025-02-19 16:19
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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
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
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References
Impacted products
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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