CVE-2026-20340

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Deserialization Arbitrary Root Command Execution Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Sep 18, 2026
Reserved
Oct 8, 2025

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Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Secure FMC Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands at the root privilege level.

This vulnerability is due to unsecured deserialization of web-management user-controlled data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the device and sending a crafted HTTP payload. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to save the crafted payload and then execute it on the underlying operating system as root. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Security Analyst (read-only).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)Cisco
  • 7.0.0Affected
  • 7.0.0.1Affected
  • 7.0.1Affected
  • 7.0.1.1Affected
  • 7.0.2Affected
  • 7.2.0Affected
  • 7.0.2.1Affected
  • 7.0.3Affected
  • 7.2.0.1Affected
  • 7.0.4Affected
  • 7.2.1Affected
  • 7.0.5Affected
  • 7.3.0Affected
  • 7.2.2Affected
  • 7.3.1Affected
  • 7.2.3Affected
  • 7.2.3.1Affected
  • 7.2.4Affected
  • 7.0.6Affected
  • 7.2.4.1Affected
  • 7.2.5Affected
  • 7.3.1.1Affected
  • 7.4.0Affected
  • 7.0.6.1Affected
  • 7.2.5.1Affected
  • and 43 more versions

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