Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Summary

CVECVE-2024-20359
StateRESERVED
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2024-04-24 00:00:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-08 16:08:28 UTC
DescriptionCisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow local privilege escalation from Administrator to root.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.194340000 probability, percentile 0.970760000 (date 2026-07-22)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2024-04-24; due 2024-05-01; ransomware use Unknown

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorCisco
ProductAdaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
NameCisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Required ActionApply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Noteshttps://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-persist-rce-FLsNXF4h; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20359

References

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CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

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