Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2024-20359)
Severity: medium · Patch status: unknown · Since 2024-04-24 · CVE-2024-20359
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow local privilege escalation from Administrator to root. CISA added CVE-2024-20359 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Apr 24, 2024, which means attackers are exploiting it in the wild.
What to do
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- US federal agencies must remediate by May 1, 2024 (BOD 22-01); treat that as the outer limit.
Sources
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