CVE-2009-1220: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in +webvpn+/index.html in WebVPN on the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5520 with software 7.2(4)30 and earlier 7.2 versions including 7.2(2)22, and 8.0(4)28 and earlier 8.0 versions, when clientless mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host HTTP header.

Affected products

  • Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance: version 5520 only
  • Cisco IOS: version 7.2(2)22 only

Published 2009-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.