CVE-2024-20359 — Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2024-20359: Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Cisco |
| Product | Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) |
| Date added | 2024-04-24 |
| Due date | 2024-05-01 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Unknown |
Description
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.
Required action (CISA)
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-persist-rce-FLsNXF4h; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20359
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-94. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.
References
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20359
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
See all 1,745 pages under Vulnerabilities (CVE) →
Related pages
Browse by topic
Every page in the corpus, grouped. Search finds one page; this shows what else is here.