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CVE-2023-20215

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.8 Published: 2023-08-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Cisco S195Cisco Web Security Appliance S190Cisco Web Security Appliance S380Cisco S395Cisco Web Security Appliance S690XCisco S695Cisco Web Security Appliance S390Cisco AsyncosCisco Web Security Appliance S170Cisco Web Security Appliance S690

Weakness Type

CWE-202, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References