CVE-2026-20069

Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Services Client-Side Request Smuggling Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 4.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.003
19.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the VPN web services component of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct browser-based attacks against users of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to visit a website that is designed to pass malicious HTTP requests to a device that is running Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software or Cisco Secure FTD Software and has web services endpoints supporting VPN features enabled. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to reflect malicious input from the affected device to the browser that is in use and conduct browser-based attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. The attacker is not able to directly impact the affected device.

Weakness: CWE-444

Affected products

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