CVE-2022-20867: Cisco Asyncos

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in web-based management interface of the of Cisco Email Security Appliance and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct SQL injection attacks as root on an affected system. The attacker must have the credentials of a high-privileged user account. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-submitted parameters. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the application and sending malicious requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain data or modify data that is stored in the underlying database of the affected system.

Affected products

• Cisco Asyncos: from 13.0, before 14.2.1 (fixed in 14.2.1); from 12.0, before 14.2.0 (fixed in 14.2.0)

Published 2022-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.