TL;DR 📌
A command injection vulnerability has been identified in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software. This medium-severity issue allows authenticated local attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. Cisco has released software updates to address this vulnerability, but no workarounds are available.
What happened 🕵️♂️
A vulnerability in the command-line interface (CLI) of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software has been discovered. This flaw arises from improper input validation for specific CLI commands, enabling an authenticated local attacker to inject operating system commands. If exploited, the attacker could escape the restricted command prompt and execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system. Successful exploitation requires valid Administrator credentials.