CVE-2026-20070

Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software VPN Web Services Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.1
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A vulnerability in the VPN web services component of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a browser that is accessing an affected device.  This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input in HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to follow a link to a malicious website that is designed to submit malicious input to the affected application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary HTML or script code in the browser in the context of the VPN web server.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Softwareaffected 9.12.3 ; affected 9.12.1 ; affected 9.12.2 ; affected 9.12.4 ; affected 9.12.3.2 ; affected 9.12.3.7
Cisco · Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Softwareaffected 6.4.0.1 ; affected 6.4.0.2 ; affected 6.4.0.5 ; affected 6.4.0 ; affected 6.4.0.3 ; affected 6.4.0.4

References

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