CVE-2020-3253

MEDIUM

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the support tunnel feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access the shell of an affected device even though expert mode is disabled. The vulnerability is due to improper configuration of the support tunnel feature. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enabling the support tunnel, setting a key, and deriving the tunnel password. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to run any system command with root access on an affected device.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-284
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/firepower_threat_defense < 6.5.0
Published May 06, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026