Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Shell Access Vulnerability (Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software)

CVE-2020-3253
MEDIUM 6.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.31 % · percentile 24 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the support tunnel feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access the shell of an affected device even though expert mode is disabled. The vulnerability is due to improper configuration of the support tunnel feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enabling the support tunnel, setting a key, and deriving the tunnel password. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to run any system command with root access on an affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.7CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.2AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Softwareaffected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD