Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Geolocation Remote Access VPN Bypass Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software)

CVE-2025-20268
MEDIUM 5.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.48 % Β· percentile 42 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A vulnerability in the Geolocation-Based Remote Access (RA) VPN feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured policies to allow or deny HTTP connections based on a country or region. This vulnerability exists because the URL string is not fully parsed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP connection through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured policies and gain access to a network where the connection should have been denied.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-229 β€” Improper Handling of Values

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD Β· psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco Β· Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected 7.7.0

Sources

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