CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-1488
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-04-29
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77, CWE-78
Description
A vulnerability in the upgrade process of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to inject commands that could be executed with root privileges on the underlying operating system (OS). This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted upgrade package file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject commands that could be executed with root privileges on the underlying OS.
Affected configurations
• cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.5.0 < 6.6.4)
• cisco secure firewall threat defense (>= 6.7.0 < 6.7.0.2)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.13 < 9.13.1.21)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.14 < 9.14.2.13)
• cisco adaptive security appliance software (>= 9.15 < 9.15.1.10)