CVE-2025-20220 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-20220

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Secure Firewall Management...

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as root. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation for specific CLI commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting operating system commands into a legitimate command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted command prompt and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need valid Administrator credentials. For more information about vulnerable scenarios, see the Details ["#details"] section of this advisory.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Cisco Firepower Management Center, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software
Vulnerable Versions:
7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.8.1, 7.2.9, 7.4.1, 7.4.1.1, 7.4.2, 7.4.2.1, 7.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 14th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)