CVE-2021-34761

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software CLI Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
Oct 27, 2021
Updated
Nov 7, 2024
Reserved
Jun 15, 2021

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Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite or append arbitrary data to system files using root-level privileges. The attacker must have administrative credentials on the device. This vulnerability is due to incomplete validation of user input for a specific CLI command. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device with administrative privileges and issuing a CLI command with crafted user parameters. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite or append arbitrary data to system files using root-level privileges.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco
  • n/aAffected

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