CVE-2025-20251

Severity
8.5HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 67.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 14

Description

A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service for Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to create or delete arbitrary files on the underlying operating system. If critical system files are manipulated, new Remote Access SSL VPN sessions could be denied and existing sessions could be dropped, causing a denial of service (DoS) condition. An exploited device requir

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:HExploitability: 3.1 | Impact: 4.7

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-62cp-qvq6-cfw4: A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service for Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Th2025-08-14
CVEList
Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Authenticated Arbitrary File Deletion2025-08-14

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Cisco
Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Server Denial of Service Vulnerability2025-08-14
Microsoft
A flaw was found in samba. A race condition in the password lockout code may lead to the risk of brute force attacks being successful if special conditions are met.2023-03-14
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