CVE-2023-20215 (GCVE-0-2023-20215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-03 21:16 – Updated: 2024-08-02 09:05
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Summary
A vulnerability in the scanning engines of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass a configured rule, allowing traffic onto a network that should have been blocked. This vulnerability is due to improper detection of malicious traffic when the traffic is encoded with a specific content format. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using an affected device to connect to a malicious server and receiving crafted HTTP responses. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass an explicit block rule and receive traffic that should have been rejected by the device.
Severity
5.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-202 - Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Data Queries
Assigner
cisco CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 443 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Cisco Cisco Secure Web Appliance Affected: 11.7.0-406
Affected: 11.7.0-418
Affected: 11.7.1-049
Affected: 11.7.1-006
Affected: 11.7.1-020
Affected: 11.7.2-011
Affected: 11.8.0-414
Affected: 11.8.1-023
Affected: 11.8.3-018
Affected: 11.8.3-021
Affected: 12.0.1-268
Affected: 12.0.3-007
Affected: 12.5.2-007
Affected: 12.5.1-011
Affected: 12.5.4-005
Affected: 12.5.5-004
Affected: 14.5.0-498
Affected: 14.5.1-016
Affected: 14.0.3-014
Affected: 14.0.2-012
Affected: 14.0.4-005
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.