CVE-2025-20220

Aug. 15, 2025, 1:12 p.m.

6.0
Medium

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation for specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting operating system commands into a legitimate command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted command prompt and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid Administrator credentials. For more information about vulnerable scenarios, see the Details ["#details"] section of this advisory.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Cisco
  • Secure Firewall Management Center
  • Secure Firewall Threat Defense
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Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-78
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a cisco secure_firewall_management_center / / / / / / / /
a cisco secure_firewall_threat_defense / / / / / / / /

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fmc-ftd-cmdinj-PhE7kmT

Tags

CWE-78
psirt@cisco.com
2025-08-14
CVE-2025-20220

CVSS Score

6.0 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: HIGH
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: NONE

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 14, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 15, 2025, 1:12 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

psirt@cisco.com

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