CVE-2021-1476

MEDIUM

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense - Authenticated OS Command Injection via CLI

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system (OS) of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of commands that are supplied by the user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to a device and submitting crafted input for specific commands. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying OS with root privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must have valid administrator-level credentials.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 6.7
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
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-78
Status published
Products (2)
cisco/adaptive_security_appliance_software 9.13 - 9.13.1.21
cisco/firepower_threat_defense 6.5.0 - 6.6.4
Published Apr 29, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026