CVE-2026-20018Cisco Firepower Management Center Software and Firepower Threat Defense Path Traversal Vulnerability
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A vulnerability in the sftunnel functionality of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to write arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the directory path during file synchronization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a directory path outside of the expected file location. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create or replace any file on the underlying operating system.
- CVSS
- 5.9 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-27
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- cisco
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Mar 4, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
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