PT-2026-22969 · Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (Ftd)+1

Kyle Ossinger · Published 2026-03-04 · Updated 2026-03-04 · CVE-2026-20008

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw exists in certain command-line interface (CLI) commands within the software that could allow a local attacker with Administrator privileges to execute Lua code as root. This is due to insufficient input sanitization. An attacker could craft malicious Lua code and submit it as a parameter to a CLI command, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with root privileges.

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-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-20008

Affected Products

Cisco Secure Firewall Asa

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (Ftd)

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20008 · Security Note
• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-luainject-VescqgmS · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2029272825471660038 · Twitter Post