Cisco Firepower Management Center Command Injection Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability in the web UI of the Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that are executed with the privileges of the root user of the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input to the web UI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input in the web UI. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with full root privileges.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Cisco · Cisco Firepower Management Center

  • affected unspecified – < n/a

What to do

Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

References (1)

• 20191002 Cisco Firepower Management Center Command Injection Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2019-12690](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2019-12690.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2019-12690)

Record last updated 20 Nov 2024, 17:07 UTC.