CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-20485

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-23 Modified 2026-08-11 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-10-23
Last modified
2026-08-11
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

A vulnerability in the VPN web server of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root-level privileges. Administrator-level privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of a specific file when it is read from system flash memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by restoring a crafted backup file to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected device after the next reload of the device, which could alter system behavior. Because the injected code could persist across device reboots, Cisco has raised the Security Impact Rating (SIR) of this advisory from Medium to High.

Affected configurations

• cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.1.5 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.1.7 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.8 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.14 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.15 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.17 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.20 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.24 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.26 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.28 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.33 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.35 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.38 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.2.45 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.8 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.11 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.14 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.16 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.18 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.21 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.26 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.3.29 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.7 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.8 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.10 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.12 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.15 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.17 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.20 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.22 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.25 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.26 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.29 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.32 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.33 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.34 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.35 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.39 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.40 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.41 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.43 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.44 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.45 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.46 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.8.4.48 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.1.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.1.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.2 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.2.1 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.2.4 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.2.5 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.2.9 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.3 • cisco adaptive security appliance software 9.12.3.2 … and 224 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References