CVE-2025-20153

Cisco ESA mail Bypass

Published Feb 19, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 5.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A vulnerability in the email filtering mechanism of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured rules and allow emails that should have been denied to flow through an affected device. &nbsp;

This vulnerability is due to improper handling of email that passes through an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass email filters on the affected device.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-4671 A vulnerability in the email filtering mechanism of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured rules and allow emails that should have been denied to flow through an affected device. &nbsp; This vulnerability is due to improper handling of email that passes through an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass email filters on the affected device.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco secure Email Gateway
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:13.0.0-392:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:13.0.5-007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:13.5.1-277:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:13.5.4-038:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:14.0.0-698:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:14.2.0-620:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:14.2.1-020:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:14.3.0-032:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:15.0.0-104:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:15.0.1-030:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:15.0.3-002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:15.5.0-048:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:15.5.1-055:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:15.5.2-018:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_email_gateway:16.0.0-050:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco secure Email Gateway
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A vulnerability in the email filtering mechanism of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured rules and allow emails that should have been denied to flow through an affected device. &nbsp; This vulnerability is due to improper handling of email that passes through an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass email filters on the affected device.
Title Cisco ESA mail Bypass
Weaknesses CWE-284
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
cisco
Published
Updated
Feb 19, 2025, 4:19 PM
Reserved
Oct 10, 2024, 7:15 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Feb 19, 2025, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 8:40 AM