CVE-2020-3550
HIGHCisco Firepower Threat Defense & Secure Firewall Management Center < 6.0.1 - Authenticated Path Traversal
Title source: llmDescription
A vulnerability in the sfmgr daemon of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform directory traversal and access directories outside the restricted path. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a relative path in specific sfmgr commands. An exploit could allow the attacker to read or write arbitrary files on an sftunnel-connected peer device.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftdfmc-dirtrav-NW8XcuSB
Scores
CVSS v3
8.1
EPSS
0.0033
EPSS Percentile
56.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (6)
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
6.2.0
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
6.2.1
cisco/firepower_threat_defense
< 6.0.1
cisco/secure_firewall_management_center
6.2.0
cisco/secure_firewall_management_center
6.2.1
cisco/secure_firewall_management_center
< 6.0.1
Published
Oct 21, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026