Cisco ASA/Firepower Threat Defense command injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA and Firepower Threat Defense. It has been classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to command injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-20358. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco ASA and Firepower Threat Defense (unknown version) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) restore functionality that is available in Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges. Administrator-level privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability exists because the contents of a backup file are improperly sanitized at restore time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as root.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-20358 since 11/08/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/04/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 6.7
VulDB Temp Score: 6.4
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NVD Base Score: 6.7
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CNA Base Score: 6.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Command injection
CWE: CWE-77 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

11/08/2023 🔍
04/24/2024 +167 days 🔍
04/24/2024 +0 days 🔍
03/04/2026 +679 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco-sa-asaftd-cmd-inj-ZJV8Wysm
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-20358 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-20358
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-261959

Entryinfo

Created: 04/24/2024 20:50
Updated: 03/04/2026 19:28
Changes: 04/24/2024 20:50 (52), 04/25/2024 16:27 (1), 05/29/2024 09:53 (1), 05/29/2024 09:56 (20), 03/04/2026 19:28 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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Discussion

 Anonymous User (+0)
2 years ago
Good afternoon,
Could You align the API to the web page?
We’ll appreciate it.
Best Regards,
TEAM CERT
 VulDB Community Team2 years ago
Thank you for your inquiry, we have just pushed the entry to the API again.

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