CVE-2026-20353 (GCVE-0-2026-20353)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-14 16:08 – Updated: 2026-09-15 03:56
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Cisco Secure Email Gateway Security Hardening Release
Summary
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20353 are related to issues with improper control of a resource through its lifetime that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-664.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-14 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-664 - Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Secure Email |
Affected:
14.0.0-698
Affected: 13.5.1-277 Affected: 13.0.0-392 Affected: 14.2.0-620 Affected: 13.0.5-007 Affected: 13.5.4-038 Affected: 14.2.1-020 Affected: 14.3.0-032 Affected: 15.0.0-104 Affected: 15.0.1-030 Affected: 15.5.0-048 Affected: 15.5.1-055 Affected: 15.5.2-018 Affected: 16.0.0-050 Affected: 15.0.3-002 Affected: 16.0.0-054 Affected: 15.5.3-022 Affected: 16.0.1-017 Affected: 15.5.4-012 Affected: 16.0.4-016 Affected: 15.0.5-016 Affected: 16.0.2-112 Affected: 16.0.3-044 |
guessed |
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