PT-2019-3393 · Cisco · Cisco Ftd

Published 2019-10-02 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2019-12674

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient protections on the underlying filesystem in the multi-instance feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. This could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escape the container for their FTD instance and execute commands with root privileges in the host namespace. An attacker could exploit this by modifying critical files on the underlying filesystem, potentially impacting other running FTD instances.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-116

CWE-216

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-03534

CVE-2019-12674

Affected Products

Cisco Ftd

References · 4

• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191002-ftd-container-esc · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03534 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12674 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12674 · Vendor Advisory