CVE-2025-20238
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-1244
- 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
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