PT-2025-33320 · Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (Ftd) +1

Satheeshkumar Eswaramoorthy · Published 2024-10-10 · Updated 2025-08-15 · CVE-2025-20220

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CVSS v2.0

6.8

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software (affected versions not specified)

Description: A vulnerability exists in the CLI of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root. This issue is due to improper input validation for specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this by injecting operating system commands into a legitimate command, potentially escaping the restricted command prompt and gaining arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating system. Successful exploitation requires valid Administrator credentials.

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

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-643

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-11010

CVE-2025-20220

Affected Products

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (Fmc)

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (Ftd)

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20220 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-11010 · Security Note
• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fmc-ftd-cmdinj-PhE7kmT · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20220 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1956390313750134993 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/0dayPublishing/status/1956045544209432901 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1956179355110936786 · Twitter Post