Riskcovery

CVE-2024-20485

State
Published
Severity
6.0 Medium
Published
Oct 23, 2024
Updated
Oct 26, 2024
Reserved
Nov 8, 2023

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Description

A vulnerability in the VPN web server of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root-level privileges. Administrator-level privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of a specific file when it is read from system flash memory. 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 code on the affected device after the next reload of the device, which could alter system behavior. Because the injected code could persist across device reboots, Cisco has raised the Security Impact Rating (SIR) of this advisory from Medium to High.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SoftwareCisco
  • 9.8.1Affected
  • 9.8.1.5Affected
  • 9.8.1.7Affected
  • 9.8.2Affected
  • 9.8.2.8Affected
  • 9.8.2.14Affected
  • 9.8.2.15Affected
  • 9.8.2.17Affected
  • 9.8.2.20Affected
  • 9.8.2.24Affected
  • 9.8.2.26Affected
  • 9.8.2.28Affected
  • 9.8.2.33Affected
  • 9.8.2.35Affected
  • 9.8.2.38Affected
  • 9.8.3.8Affected
  • 9.8.3.11Affected
  • 9.8.3.14Affected
  • 9.8.3.16Affected
  • 9.8.3.18Affected
  • 9.8.3.21Affected
  • 9.8.3Affected
  • 9.8.3.26Affected
  • 9.8.3.29Affected
  • 9.8.4Affected
  • and 169 more versions
Cisco Firepower Threat Defense SoftwareCisco
  • 6.2.3Affected
  • 6.2.3.1Affected
  • 6.2.3.2Affected
  • 6.2.3.3Affected
  • 6.2.3.4Affected
  • 6.2.3.5Affected
  • 6.2.3.6Affected
  • 6.2.3.7Affected
  • 6.2.3.8Affected
  • 6.2.3.10Affected
  • 6.2.3.11Affected
  • 6.2.3.9Affected
  • 6.2.3.12Affected
  • 6.2.3.13Affected
  • 6.2.3.14Affected
  • 6.2.3.15Affected
  • 6.2.3.16Affected
  • 6.2.3.17Affected
  • 6.2.3.18Affected
  • 6.6.0Affected
  • 6.6.0.1Affected
  • 6.6.1Affected
  • 6.6.3Affected
  • 6.6.4Affected
  • 6.6.5Affected
  • and 65 more versions

References

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