CVE-2026-20018

Cisco Firepower Management Center Software and Firepower Threat Defense Path Traversal Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.9
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
34.6th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the sftunnel functionality of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to write arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the directory path during file synchronization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a directory path outside of the expected file location. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create or replace any file on the underlying operating system.

Weakness: CWE-27

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)
  • Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software