Severity
6.0MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 99.08%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 14
Description
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 v…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-c3ph-mf94-pp8r: A vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allo↗2025-08-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2025-20238: A vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allo↗2025-08-14
📋Vendor Advisories
1Cisco▶
Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Authenticated Command Injection Vulnerabilities↗2025-08-14