Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center

CVE-2025-20220
MEDIUM 6.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Deferred

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-78 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Management Centeraffected 7.2.6 ; affected 7.2.7 ; affected 7.2.8 ; affected 7.2.8.1 ; affected 7.2.9 ; affected 7.4.1
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected 7.2.6 ; affected 7.2.7 ; affected 7.2.8 ; affected 7.2.8.1 ; affected 7.2.9 ; affected 7.4.1

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