CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-20374

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Oct 23, 2024 | Modified: Aug 06, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software, formerly Firepower Management Center Software, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain HTTP request parameters that are sent to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the Cisco FMC web-based management interface and sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user on the affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need Administrator-level credentials.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 6.7.0 (including) 6.7.0 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 6.7.0.1 (including) 6.7.0.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 6.7.0.2 (including) 6.7.0.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 6.7.0.3 (including) 6.7.0.3 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.0 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.0.1 (including) 7.0.0.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.1 (including) 7.0.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.1.1 (including) 7.0.1.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.2 (including) 7.0.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.2.1 (including) 7.0.2.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.3 (including) 7.0.3 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.4 (including) 7.0.4 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.5 (including) 7.0.5 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.6 (including) 7.0.6 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.6.1 (including) 7.0.6.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.0.6.2 (including) 7.0.6.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.1.0 (including) 7.1.0 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.1.0.1 (including) 7.1.0.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.1.0.2 (including) 7.1.0.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.1.0.3 (including) 7.1.0.3 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.0 (including) 7.2.0 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.0.1 (including) 7.2.0.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.1 (including) 7.2.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.2 (including) 7.2.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.3 (including) 7.2.3 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.3.1 (including) 7.2.3.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.4 (including) 7.2.4 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.4.1 (including) 7.2.4.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.5 (including) 7.2.5 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.5.1 (including) 7.2.5.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.5.2 (including) 7.2.5.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.6 (including) 7.2.6 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.7 (including) 7.2.7 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.8 (including) 7.2.8 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.2.8.1 (including) 7.2.8.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.3.0 (including) 7.3.0 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.3.1 (including) 7.3.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.3.1.1 (including) 7.3.1.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.3.1.2 (including) 7.3.1.2 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.4.0 (including) 7.4.0 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.4.1 (including) 7.4.1 (including)
Secure_firewall_management_center Cisco 7.4.1.1 (including) 7.4.1.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

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