CVE-2025-20237

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.

Scoring

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS base score

6

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS probability

0.15%

CWE

CWE-146

Published

2025-08-14

Last modified

2026-03-12

Affected products

• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
• Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Weakness type

• CWE-146

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