cisco-sa-hardening-esa-dfCrfXkm: Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager Security Hardening Release: September 2026
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.These vulnerabilities were found during internal testing. One of them is known to be actively exploited. For more information, see Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability. To assist customers in patching and streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues by their underlying vulnerability class — Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) — and assigned a single Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifier (CVE ID) to each CWE grouping.Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.This advisory is available at the following link:https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-esa-dfCrfXkm
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which deployments should be prioritized for remediation?
Organizations using Cisco Secure Email Gateway or Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager should prioritize applying the available software updates. The hardening release addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities across these products.
Is there evidence of active exploitation?
Cisco states that one of the vulnerabilities covered by this hardening effort is known to be actively exploited. The advisory directs readers to the Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability for more information.
What can be done if updates cannot be installed immediately?
No workarounds are available for these vulnerabilities. Applying Cisco's released software updates is the stated remediation.