CVE Catalog

CVE-2021-1448

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

23th percentile - higher than 23% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device running in multi-instance mode. This is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied command arguments. An attacker could exploit this by submitting crafted input, leading to root command execution.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with local access could gain full control over the device's operating system, potentially compromising the entire device and other instances.

Recommendation

Apply Cisco updates for FTD. Restrict CLI access to trusted administrators only.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device that is running in multi-instance mode. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied command arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input to the affected command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS