CVE-2024-20358

medium Cisco
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Published: April 24, 2024 (749 days ago)
Last Modified: March 4, 2026
Vendor: Cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) restore functionality that is available in Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. Administrator-level privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability exists because the contents of a backup file are improperly sanitized at restore time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as root.

CWE

CWE-78

Affected Products

cisco adaptive security appliance softwarecisco firepower threat defense software

References

🔗 sec.cloudapps.cisco.com 🔗 sec.cloudapps.cisco.com