CVE-2026-20079

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CRITICAL 10.0CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2026-09-09

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 88.47 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-03-04 17:17 UTC
Updated: 2026-09-16 20:08 UTC
Assigner: cisco
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute script files on an affected device to obtain root access to the underlying operating system.  This vulnerability is due to an improper system process that is created at boot time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute a variety of scripts and commands that allow root access to the device. 

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-288 — Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	cisco
CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL 10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-9438
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-20079

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0242 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Cisco · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:7.2.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Affected products

Product	Versions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)	affected 7.0.0 ; affected 7.0.0.1 ; affected 7.0.1 ; affected 7.1.0 ; affected 7.0.1.1 ; affected 7.1.0.1

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities	CC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD