Vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise Chat And Email

CVE-2025-20139

A vulnerability in chat messaging features of Cisco Enterprise Chat and Email (ECE) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input to chat entry points. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious requests to a messaging chat entry point in the affected application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the application to stop responding, resulting in a DoS condition. The application may not recover on its own and may need an administrator to manually restart services to recover.

EPSS: 0.006 (48.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-20139?
CVE-2025-20139 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Enterprise Chat And Email, classified under Incorrect Regular Expression. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-04-02.
How severe is CVE-2025-20139?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.