Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center up to 10.0.1 denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-20343. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A vulnerability in a critical API for Cisco Secure FMC Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to download sensitive files and use unbounded disk space. This vulnerability exists because a critical API lacks authentication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by repeatedly invoking the API. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to download sensitive files that should be restricted and consume disk space so the device could become unresponsive, causing a DoS condition.

The advisory is available at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-20343 since 10/08/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is 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 09/16/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Firewall Software

Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Secure Firewall Management Center

Version

• 7.3.0
• 7.3.1
• 7.3.1.1
• 7.3.1.2
• 7.4.0
• 7.4.1
• 7.4.1.1
• 7.4.2
• 7.4.2.1
• 7.4.2.2
• 7.4.2.3
• 7.4.2.4
• 7.4.3
• 7.4.4
• 7.4.5
• 7.4.6
• 7.4.7
• 7.6.0
• 7.6.1
• 7.6.2
• 7.6.2.1
• 7.6.3
• 7.6.4
• 7.6.5
• 7.7.0
• 7.7.10
• 7.7.10.1
• 7.7.11
• 7.7.12
• 10.0.0
• 10.0.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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