CVE-2026-20355

Cisco Secure Email S/MIME Ciphertext Decryption Vulnerabilty

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Sep 2, 2026
Updated
Sep 8, 2026
Reserved
Oct 8, 2025

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Description

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) decryption functionality of Cisco Secure Email could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to recover plain text from encrypted email messages.

These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient validation of message integrity. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by using a machine-in-the-middle technique to intercept and modify traffic between email gateways. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain plaintext content from the encrypted communication.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Secure EmailCisco
  • 14.0.0-698Affected
  • 13.5.1-277Affected
  • 13.0.0-392Affected
  • 14.2.0-620Affected
  • 13.0.5-007Affected
  • 13.5.4-038Affected
  • 14.2.1-020Affected
  • 14.3.0-032Affected
  • 15.0.0-104Affected
  • 15.0.1-030Affected
  • 15.5.0-048Affected
  • 15.5.1-055Affected
  • 15.5.2-018Affected
  • 16.0.0-050Affected
  • 15.0.3-002Affected
  • 16.0.0-054Affected
  • 15.5.3-022Affected
  • 16.0.1-017Affected
  • 15.5.4-012Affected
  • 16.0.4-016Affected
  • 15.0.5-016Affected
  • 16.0.2-112Affected
  • 16.0.3-044Affected
  • 16.5.0-780Affected

References

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