Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Signature Verification Bypass Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software)

CVE-2020-3308
MEDIUM 4.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.61 % · percentile 49 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the Image Signature Verification feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrator-level credentials to install a malicious software patch on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper verification of digital signatures for patch images. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting an unsigned software patch to bypass signature checks and loading it on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to boot a malicious software patch image.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-347 — Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD