CVE-2025-20238 (GCVE-0-2025-20238)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-14 16:29 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-15 03:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1244 - Improper Authorization on Physical Debug and Test Interfaces
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Affected: 9.8.4.34 Affected: 9.8.4.35 Affected: 9.8.4.39 Affected: 9.8.4.40 Affected: 9.8.4.41 Affected: 9.8.4.43 Affected: 9.8.4.44 Affected: 9.8.4.45 Affected: 9.8.4.46 Affected: 9.8.4.48 Affected: 9.12.1 Affected: 9.12.1.2 Affected: 9.12.1.3 Affected: 9.12.2 Affected: 9.12.2.4 Affected: 9.12.2.5 Affected: 9.12.2.9 Affected: 9.12.3 Affected: 9.12.3.2 Affected: 9.12.3.7 Affected: 9.12.4 Affected: 9.12.3.12 Affected: 9.12.3.9 Affected: 9.12.2.1 Affected: 9.12.4.2 Affected: 9.12.4.4 Affected: 9.12.4.7 Affected: 9.12.4.10 Affected: 9.12.4.13 Affected: 9.12.4.8 Affected: 9.12.4.18 Affected: 9.12.4.24 Affected: 9.12.4.26 Affected: 9.12.4.29 Affected: 9.12.4.30 Affected: 9.12.4.35 Affected: 9.12.4.37 Affected: 9.12.4.38 Affected: 9.12.4.39 Affected: 9.12.4.40 Affected: 9.12.4.41 Affected: 9.12.4.47 Affected: 9.12.4.48 Affected: 9.12.4.50 Affected: 9.12.4.52 Affected: 9.12.4.54 Affected: 9.12.4.55 Affected: 9.12.4.56 Affected: 9.12.4.58 Affected: 9.12.4.62 Affected: 9.12.4.65 Affected: 9.12.4.67 Affected: 9.14.1 Affected: 9.14.1.10 Affected: 9.14.1.6 Affected: 9.14.1.15 Affected: 9.14.1.19 Affected: 9.14.1.30 Affected: 9.14.2 Affected: 9.14.2.4 Affected: 9.14.2.8 Affected: 9.14.2.13 Affected: 9.14.2.15 Affected: 9.14.3 Affected: 9.14.3.1 Affected: 9.14.3.9 Affected: 9.14.3.11 Affected: 9.14.3.13 Affected: 9.14.3.18 Affected: 9.14.3.15 Affected: 9.14.4 Affected: 9.14.4.6 Affected: 9.14.4.7 Affected: 9.14.4.12 Affected: 9.14.4.13 Affected: 9.14.4.14 Affected: 9.14.4.15 Affected: 9.14.4.17 Affected: 9.14.4.22 Affected: 9.14.4.23 Affected: 9.14.4.24 Affected: 9.16.1 Affected: 9.16.1.28 Affected: 9.16.2 Affected: 9.16.2.3 Affected: 9.16.2.7 Affected: 9.16.2.11 Affected: 9.16.2.13 Affected: 9.16.2.14 Affected: 9.16.3 Affected: 9.16.3.3 Affected: 9.16.3.14 Affected: 9.16.3.15 Affected: 9.16.3.19 Affected: 9.16.3.23 Affected: 9.16.4 Affected: 9.16.4.9 Affected: 9.16.4.14 Affected: 9.16.4.18 Affected: 9.16.4.19 Affected: 9.16.4.27 Affected: 9.16.4.38 Affected: 9.16.4.39 Affected: 9.16.4.42 Affected: 9.16.4.48 Affected: 9.16.4.55 Affected: 9.16.4.57 Affected: 9.16.4.61 Affected: 9.16.4.62 Affected: 9.16.4.67 Affected: 9.16.4.70 Affected: 9.16.4.71 Affected: 9.16.4.76 Affected: 9.16.4.82 Affected: 9.17.1 Affected: 9.17.1.7 Affected: 9.17.1.9 Affected: 9.17.1.10 Affected: 9.17.1.11 Affected: 9.17.1.13 Affected: 9.17.1.15 Affected: 9.17.1.20 Affected: 9.17.1.30 Affected: 9.17.1.33 Affected: 9.17.1.39 Affected: 9.17.1.45 Affected: 9.17.1.46 Affected: 9.18.1 Affected: 9.18.1.3 Affected: 9.18.2 Affected: 9.18.2.5 Affected: 9.18.2.7 Affected: 9.18.2.8 Affected: 9.18.3 Affected: 9.18.3.39 Affected: 9.18.3.46 Affected: 9.18.3.53 Affected: 9.18.3.55 Affected: 9.18.3.56 Affected: 9.18.4 Affected: 9.18.4.5 Affected: 9.18.4.8 Affected: 9.18.4.22 Affected: 9.18.4.24 Affected: 9.18.4.29 Affected: 9.18.4.34 Affected: 9.18.4.40 Affected: 9.18.4.47 Affected: 9.18.4.50 Affected: 9.18.4.52 Affected: 9.18.4.53 Affected: 9.19.1 Affected: 9.19.1.5 Affected: 9.19.1.9 Affected: 9.19.1.12 Affected: 9.19.1.18 Affected: 9.19.1.22 Affected: 9.19.1.24 Affected: 9.19.1.27 Affected: 9.19.1.28 Affected: 9.19.1.31 Affected: 9.19.1.37 Affected: 9.19.1.38 Affected: 9.20.1 Affected: 9.20.1.5 Affected: 9.20.2 Affected: 9.20.2.10 Affected: 9.20.2.21 Affected: 9.20.2.22 Affected: 9.20.3 Affected: 9.20.3.4 Affected: 9.20.3.7 Affected: 9.20.3.9 Affected: 9.20.3.10 Affected: 9.20.3.13 Affected: 9.22.1.1 Affected: 9.22.1.3 Affected: 9.22.1.2 Affected: 9.22.1.6 Affected: 9.23.1 |
guessed | |
| 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 Affected: 6.4.0.10 Affected: 6.4.0.11 Affected: 6.4.0.12 Affected: 6.4.0.13 Affected: 6.4.0.14 Affected: 6.4.0.15 Affected: 6.4.0.16 Affected: 6.4.0.17 Affected: 6.4.0.18 Affected: 7.0.0 Affected: 7.0.0.1 Affected: 7.0.1 Affected: 7.0.1.1 Affected: 7.0.2 Affected: 7.0.2.1 Affected: 7.0.3 Affected: 7.0.4 Affected: 7.0.5 Affected: 7.0.6 Affected: 7.0.6.1 Affected: 7.0.6.2 Affected: 7.0.6.3 Affected: 7.0.7 Affected: 7.1.0 Affected: 7.1.0.1 Affected: 7.1.0.2 Affected: 7.1.0.3 Affected: 7.2.0 Affected: 7.2.0.1 Affected: 7.2.1 Affected: 7.2.2 Affected: 7.2.3 Affected: 7.2.4 Affected: 7.2.4.1 Affected: 7.2.5 Affected: 7.2.5.1 Affected: 7.2.6 Affected: 7.2.7 Affected: 7.2.5.2 Affected: 7.2.8 Affected: 7.2.8.1 Affected: 7.2.9 Affected: 7.3.0 Affected: 7.3.1 Affected: 7.3.1.1 Affected: 7.3.1.2 Affected: 7.4.0 Affected: 7.4.1 Affected: 7.4.1.1 Affected: 7.4.2 Affected: 7.4.2.1 Affected: 7.4.2.2 Affected: 7.6.0 Affected: 7.7.0 |
guessed |
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"value": "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.\r\n\r 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."
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"value": "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."
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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