CVE-2021-1448

HIGH

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 6.4.0 - Authenticated OS Command Injection via CLI

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device that is running in multi-instance mode. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied command arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input to the affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-78 CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
cisco/firepower_threat_defense 6.4.0 - 6.4.0.10
Published Apr 29, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026