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CVE-2025-20306 - Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center FMC Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-20306
Published : Aug. 14, 2025, 5:15 p.m. | 24 minutes ago
Description : A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain HTTP request parameters that are sent to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the interface and sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user on the affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need Administrator-level credentials.
Severity: 4.9 | MEDIUM
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