CVE-2025-20238
Aug. 15, 2025, 1:12 p.m.
6.0
Medium
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials.
This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands that are supplied by the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to a device and submitting crafted input for specific commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system as root.
Product(s) Impacted
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco |
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Weaknesses
Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.
CWE-1244
Internal Asset Exposed to Unsafe Debug Access Level or State
The product uses physical debug or test
interfaces with support for multiple access levels, but it
assigns the wrong debug access level to an internal asset,
providing unintended access to the asset from untrusted debug
agents.
*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_asa | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| a | cisco | secure_firewall_ftd | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
Tags
CVSS Score
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
Timeline
Published: Aug. 14, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 15, 2025, 1:12 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 infoSource
psirt@cisco.com
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