Vulnerability · Published Oct 21, 2020 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2020-3550Cisco Firepower Management Center Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Directory Traversal Vulnerability

High 8.1

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in Cisco Firepower Management Center from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.2% (higher than 83% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.0)8.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.2%top 17.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the sfmgr daemon of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform directory traversal and access directories outside the restricted path. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a relative path in specific sfmgr commands. An exploit could allow the attacker to read or write arbitrary files on an sftunnel-connected peer device.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Firepower Management Center	n/a

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

20201021 Cisco Firepower Management Center Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Directory Traversal Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO