CVE-2024-20431

MediumCVSS 5.8

Published: 23/10/2024(UTC)Updated: 11/08/2026(UTC)Translated: 12/08/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.40%

33th percentile - higher than 33% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the geolocation access control feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass an access control policy. This is due to improper assignment of geolocation data.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could bypass geolocation-based access control and send traffic to a protected device, potentially leading to unauthorized access.

Recommendation

Apply Cisco updates for FTD and verify the geolocation configuration.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco FTD

CVE-2019-12694Medium
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) could allow an authenticated, local attacker with administrative privileges to execute commands on the underlying OS with root privileges. This is due to insufficient input validation.

Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability in the geolocation access control feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass an access control policy. This vulnerability is due to improper assignment of geolocation data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass a geolocation-based access control policy and successfully send traffic to a protected device.

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