Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software command injection

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-20374. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software (unknown version). Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software, formerly Firepower Management Center Software, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain HTTP request parameters that are sent to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the Cisco FMC web-based management interface and sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user on the affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need Administrator-level credentials.

The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-20374 since 11/08/2023. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/06/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Firewall Software

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• Cisco

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• Secure Firewall Management Center Software

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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