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CVE-2024-20358

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CVE-2024-20358

Published: Apr 24, 2024

Modified: Mar 4, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.0

MEDIUM

Description

A vulnerability in the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) restore functionality that is available in Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. Administrator-level privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability exists because the contents of a backup file are improperly sanitized at restore time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as root.

VendorProductVersions

Cisco

Cisco Secure Firewall 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

+230 more versions

Cisco

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) 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

+100 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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