CVE-2025-20237
A vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)…
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- Updated
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- cisco
Description
A vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands that are supplied by the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to a device and submitting crafted input for specific commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system as root.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciscoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 95% 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: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
- affected 9.8.1
- affected 9.8.1.5
- affected 9.8.1.7
- affected 9.8.2
- affected 9.8.2.8
- affected 9.8.2.14
- affected 9.8.2.15
- affected 9.8.2.17
- affected 9.8.2.20
- affected 9.8.2.24
- affected 9.8.2.26
- affected 9.8.2.28
- affected 9.8.2.33
- affected 9.8.2.35
- affected 9.8.2.38
- affected 9.8.3.8
- affected 9.8.3.11
- affected 9.8.3.14
- affected 9.8.3.16
- affected 9.8.3.18
- affected 9.8.3.21
- affected 9.8.3
- affected 9.8.3.26
- affected 9.8.3.29
- affected 9.8.4
- affected 9.8.4.3
- affected 9.8.4.7
- affected 9.8.4.8
- affected 9.8.4.10
- affected 9.8.4.12
- affected 9.8.4.15
- affected 9.8.4.17
- affected 9.8.2.45
- affected 9.8.4.25
- affected 9.8.4.20
- affected 9.8.4.22
- affected 9.8.4.26
- affected 9.8.4.29
- affected 9.8.4.32
- affected 9.8.4.33
- and 180 more
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software
- affected 6.2.3
- affected 6.2.3.1
- affected 6.2.3.2
- affected 6.2.3.3
- affected 6.2.3.4
- affected 6.2.3.5
- affected 6.2.3.6
- affected 6.2.3.7
- affected 6.2.3.8
- affected 6.2.3.10
- affected 6.2.3.11
- affected 6.2.3.9
- affected 6.2.3.12
- affected 6.2.3.13
- affected 6.2.3.14
- affected 6.2.3.15
- affected 6.2.3.16
- affected 6.2.3.17
- affected 6.2.3.18
- affected 6.6.0
- affected 6.6.0.1
- affected 6.6.1
- affected 6.6.3
- affected 6.6.4
- affected 6.6.5
- affected 6.6.5.1
- affected 6.6.5.2
- affected 6.6.7
- affected 6.6.7.1
- affected 6.6.7.2
- affected 6.4.0
- affected 6.4.0.1
- affected 6.4.0.3
- affected 6.4.0.2
- affected 6.4.0.4
- affected 6.4.0.5
- affected 6.4.0.6
- affected 6.4.0.7
- affected 6.4.0.8
- affected 6.4.0.9
- and 54 more
What to do
Exploitation: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory.
References (1)
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)
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