CVE-2024-20429

Summary

CVE-2024-20429 is a vulnerability affecting the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS for Secure Email Gateway. This issue allows authenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary system commands on the device due to insufficient input validation in certain areas of the interface. An attacker could exploit this flaw by crafting and sending malicious HTTP requests to the affected device. If successful, the attacker could gain root privileges and execute commands on the underlying operating system. To take advantage of this vulnerability, the attacker requires valid Operator credentials.

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