🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2025-20238

MEDIUM 6.0
CVSS Score
6.0
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-1244
Vendor cisco
Product cisco adaptive security appliance (asa) software
Ecosystems
Industries
NetworkingTelecommunications
Published Aug 14, 2025
Last Updated Feb 26, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Affected Versions

Cisco / Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
9.8.1 9.8.1.5 9.8.1.7 9.8.2 9.8.2.8 9.8.2.14 9.8.2.15 9.8.2.17 9.8.2.20 9.8.2.24 9.8.2.26 9.8.2.28 9.8.2.33 9.8.2.35 9.8.2.38 9.8.3.8 9.8.3.11 9.8.3.14 9.8.3.16 9.8.3.18 9.8.3.21 9.8.3 9.8.3.26 9.8.3.29 9.8.4 9.8.4.3 9.8.4.7 9.8.4.8 9.8.4.10 9.8.4.12 9.8.4.15 9.8.4.17 9.8.2.45 9.8.4.25 9.8.4.20 9.8.4.22 9.8.4.26 9.8.4.29 9.8.4.32 9.8.4.33 9.8.4.34 9.8.4.35 9.8.4.39 9.8.4.40 9.8.4.41 9.8.4.43 9.8.4.44 9.8.4.45 9.8.4.46 9.8.4.48 9.12.1 9.12.1.2 9.12.1.3 9.12.2 9.12.2.4 9.12.2.5 9.12.2.9 9.12.3 9.12.3.2 9.12.3.7 9.12.4 9.12.3.12 9.12.3.9 9.12.2.1 9.12.4.2 9.12.4.4 9.12.4.7 9.12.4.10 9.12.4.13 9.12.4.8 9.12.4.18 9.12.4.24 9.12.4.26 9.12.4.29 9.12.4.30 9.12.4.35 9.12.4.37 9.12.4.38 9.12.4.39 9.12.4.40 9.12.4.41 9.12.4.47 9.12.4.48 9.12.4.50 9.12.4.52 9.12.4.54 9.12.4.55 9.12.4.56 9.12.4.58 9.12.4.62 9.12.4.65 9.12.4.67 9.14.1 9.14.1.10 9.14.1.6 9.14.1.15 9.14.1.19 9.14.1.30 9.14.2 9.14.2.4 9.14.2.8 9.14.2.13 9.14.2.15 9.14.3 9.14.3.1 9.14.3.9 9.14.3.11 9.14.3.13 9.14.3.18 9.14.3.15 9.14.4 9.14.4.6 9.14.4.7 9.14.4.12 9.14.4.13 9.14.4.14 9.14.4.15 9.14.4.17 9.14.4.22 9.14.4.23 9.14.4.24 9.16.1 9.16.1.28 9.16.2 9.16.2.3 9.16.2.7 9.16.2.11 9.16.2.13 9.16.2.14 9.16.3 9.16.3.3 9.16.3.14 9.16.3.15 9.16.3.19 9.16.3.23 9.16.4 9.16.4.9 9.16.4.14 9.16.4.18 9.16.4.19 9.16.4.27 9.16.4.38 9.16.4.39 9.16.4.42 9.16.4.48 9.16.4.55 9.16.4.57 9.16.4.61 9.16.4.62 9.16.4.67 9.16.4.70 9.16.4.71 9.16.4.76 9.16.4.82 9.17.1 9.17.1.7 9.17.1.9 9.17.1.10 9.17.1.11 9.17.1.13 9.17.1.15 9.17.1.20 9.17.1.30 9.17.1.33 9.17.1.39 9.17.1.45 9.17.1.46 9.18.1 9.18.1.3 9.18.2 9.18.2.5 9.18.2.7 9.18.2.8 9.18.3 9.18.3.39 9.18.3.46 9.18.3.53 9.18.3.55 9.18.3.56 9.18.4 9.18.4.5 9.18.4.8 9.18.4.22 9.18.4.24 9.18.4.29 9.18.4.34 9.18.4.40 9.18.4.47 9.18.4.50 9.18.4.52 9.18.4.53 9.19.1 9.19.1.5 9.19.1.9 9.19.1.12 9.19.1.18 9.19.1.22 9.19.1.24 9.19.1.27 9.19.1.28 9.19.1.31 9.19.1.37 9.19.1.38 9.20.1 9.20.1.5 9.20.2 9.20.2.10 9.20.2.21 9.20.2.22 9.20.3 9.20.3.4 9.20.3.7 9.20.3.9 9.20.3.10 9.20.3.13 9.22.1.1 9.22.1.3 9.22.1.2 9.22.1.6 9.23.1
Cisco / Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software
6.2.3 6.2.3.1 6.2.3.2 6.2.3.3 6.2.3.4 6.2.3.5 6.2.3.6 6.2.3.7 6.2.3.8 6.2.3.10 6.2.3.11 6.2.3.9 6.2.3.12 6.2.3.13 6.2.3.14 6.2.3.15 6.2.3.16 6.2.3.17 6.2.3.18 6.6.0 6.6.0.1 6.6.1 6.6.3 6.6.4 6.6.5 6.6.5.1 6.6.5.2 6.6.7 6.6.7.1 6.6.7.2 6.4.0 6.4.0.1 6.4.0.3 6.4.0.2 6.4.0.4 6.4.0.5 6.4.0.6 6.4.0.7 6.4.0.8 6.4.0.9 6.4.0.10 6.4.0.11 6.4.0.12 6.4.0.13 6.4.0.14 6.4.0.15 6.4.0.16 6.4.0.17 6.4.0.18 7.0.0 7.0.0.1 7.0.1 7.0.1.1 7.0.2 7.0.2.1 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.6.1 7.0.6.2 7.0.6.3 7.0.7 7.1.0 7.1.0.1 7.1.0.2 7.1.0.3 7.2.0 7.2.0.1 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.2.4 7.2.4.1 7.2.5 7.2.5.1 7.2.6 7.2.7 7.2.5.2 7.2.8 7.2.8.1 7.2.9 7.3.0 7.3.1 7.3.1.1 7.3.1.2 7.4.0 7.4.1 7.4.1.1 7.4.2 7.4.2.1 7.4.2.2 7.6.0 7.7.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
sec.cloudapps.cisco.com: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-cmdinj-VEhFeZQ3