CVE-2025-20268

Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Geolocation Remote Access VPN Bypass Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.8
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.005
39.0th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Aug 14, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the Geolocation-Based Remote Access (RA) VPN feature of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured policies to allow or deny HTTP connections based on a country or region. This vulnerability exists because the URL string is not fully parsed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP connection through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured policies and gain access to a network where the connection should have been denied.

Weakness: CWE-229

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software