Cisco Firepower Management Center 7.0.7/7.7.0 injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cisco Firepower Management Center 7.0.7/7.7.0. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation results in injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-20265. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Firepower Management Center 7.0.7/7.7.0. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted 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 RADIUS subsystem implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are executed by the device.  This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper handling of user input during the authentication phase. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input when entering credentials that will be authenticated at the configured RADIUS server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands at a high privilege level. Note: For this vulnerability to be exploited, Cisco Secure FMC Software must be configured for RADIUS authentication for the web-based management interface, SSH management, or both.

The advisory is shared for download at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-20265 since 10/10/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 08/17/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1055.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at EUVD (EUVD-2025-24840) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1841). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

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Type

• Firewall Software

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• Cisco

Name

• Firepower Management Center

Version

• 7.0.7
• 7.7.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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