{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20942 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20942 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-20942 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Cisco Asyncos, published on 3 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-20942 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-20942 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Cisco Asyncos, published on 3 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20942 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Cisco Asyncos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20942/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20942/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-20942","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20942/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-20942","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-96p6-q6gp-f474"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Cisco Email Security Appliance","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An authenticated attacker can retrieve sensitive user credentials from Cisco Email and Web Security Appliances due to weak authorization checks.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"cisco","cpe":[{"product":"asyncos","vendor":"cisco"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-863","name":"Incorrect Authorization"},{"id":"CWE-359","name":"Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor"}],"description":"A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, and Cisco Secure Web Appliance, formerly known as Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information from an affected device, including user credentials.\r\n\r This vulnerability is due to weak enforcement of back-end authorization checks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain confidential data that is stored on the affected device.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Missing authorization in Cisco Secure Email","id":"CVE-2022-20942","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"cisco:asyncos","products":["cisco:asyncos"],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in Cisco Cyber Vision","id":"CVE-2022-20943"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Missing authorization in Cisco Firepower Management Center","id":"CVE-2022-20941"},"products":["Cisco Secure Email","Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager","Cisco Secure Web Appliance"],"published":"2022-11-03","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Cisco Multiple Products Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2025-20393","kev_date_added":"2025-12-17","published":"2025-12-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Cisco Secure Email Gateway Relative Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2026-76519","kev_date_added":"2026-10-14","published":"2026-10-14"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2026-76461","kev_date_added":"2026-09-14","published":"2026-09-14"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Command injection in Cisco Secure Web Appliance","id":"CVE-2024-20435","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-07-17"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Cisco Web Security Appliance Unauthorized Device Reset Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2019-15956","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-26"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Cisco Web Security Appliance Proxy Service Denial of Service Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2021-34698","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-10-06"},{"cvss_score":8.6,"headline":"Cisco Email Security Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2019-1947","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-09-23"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-03","vendors":["Cisco"]},"summary":"An authenticated attacker can retrieve sensitive user credentials from Cisco Email and Web Security Appliances due to weak authorization checks.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20942/"}