Medium severity · published Nov 3, 2022
CVE-2022-20772
A vulnerability in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct an HTTP response…
5.3
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct an HTTP response splitting attack.
This vulnerability is due to the failure of the application or its environment to properly sanitize input values. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious HTTP headers, controlling the response body, or splitting the response into multiple responses.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 49% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CS
Cisco Secure Email · Cisco
13.5.1-277; 14.0.0-698; 14.2.0-620 · source: vendor
CS
Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager · Cisco
14.0.0-404; 14.1.0-223; 14.1.0-227; 14.2.0-212 · source: vendor
ES
Email Security Appliance Firmware · Cisco
13.5.1 before 14.0.3-015; 14.1 before 14.2.1-015; 14.3 before 14.3.0-023 · source: NVD
SE
Secure Email And Web Manager Firmware · Cisco
14.2 before 14.2.0-217; 14.3 before 14.3.0-115 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20772
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-20772
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ESA-HTTP-Inject-nvsycUmR
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