Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software access control

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A vulnerability described as very critical has been identified in Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Secure Firewall Management Center and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20332. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Secure Firewall Management Center and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software (unknown version). It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.   The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20332 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-284.

The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-20332 since 10/08/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/16/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 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 Adaptive Security Appliance Software
• Secure Firewall Management Center
• Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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