CVE-2021-1561CWE-302

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Spam Quarantine Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Medium · published August 18, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the spam quarantine feature of Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, formerly Cisco Security Management Appliance (SMA), could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthorized access and modify the spam quarantine settings of another user. This vulnerability exists because access to the spam quarantine feature is not properly restricted. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify another user's spam quarantine settings, possibly disabling security controls or viewing email messages stored on the spam quarantine interfaces.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00743 · 54.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-302 · Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data
Published
2021-08-18T19:40Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 AUG 19:40Z
    Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Spam Quarantine Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
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