CVE-2025-20183

Medium

Description

A vulnerability in a policy-based Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) implementation of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Web Appliance could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to evade the antivirus scanner and download a malicious file onto an endpoint.  The vulnerability is due to improper handling of a crafted range request header. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an HTTP request with a crafted range request header through the affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to evade the antivirus scanner and download malware onto the endpoint without detection by Cisco Secure Web Appliance.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.8
Exploit probability—
ProductCisco Asyncos
PublishedFeb 5, 2025
First seenFeb 5, 2025

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
cisco asyncos11.8.0-414, 11.8.0-429, 11.8.0-453, 11.8.1-023, 11.8.3-018, 11.8.3-021, 11.8.4-004, 12.0.1-268, 12.0.1-334, 12.0.2-004, 12.0.2-012, 12.0.3-005, 12.0.3-007, 12.0.4-002, 12.0.5-011, 12.5.1-011, 12.5.1-043, 12.5.2-007, 12.5.2-011, 12.5.3-002, 12.5.4-005, 12.5.4-011, 12.5.5-004, 12.5.5-005, 12.5.5-008, 12.5.6-008, 14.0.1-014, 14.0.1-040, 14.0.1-053, 14.0.1-503, 14.0.2-012, 14.0.3-014, 14.0.4-005, 14.0.5-007, 14.1.0-032, 14.1.0-041, 14.1.0-047, 14.5.0-498, 14.5.0-537, 14.5.0-673, 14.5.1-008, 14.5.1-016, 14.5.1-510, 14.5.1-607, 14.5.2-011, 14.5.3-033, 15.0.0-322, 15.0.0-355, 15.1.0-287, 15.2.0-116, 15.2.0-164—

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