CVE-2024-20329

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software Remote Command Injection Vulnerability

Severity
Critical 9.9
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.012
63.8th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Oct 23, 2024
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the SSH subsystem of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute operating system commands as root. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input when executing remote CLI commands over SSH. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. An attacker with limited user privileges could use this vulnerability to gain complete control over the system.

Weakness: CWE-146

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
  • cisco · adaptive_security_appliance_software