A vulnerability in a legacy capability that allowed for the preloading of VPN clients and plug-ins and that has been available in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary code with root-level privileges. Administrator-level privileges are required to exploit this vulnerability.
This vulnerability is due to improper validation of a file when it is read from system flash memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by copying a crafted file to the disk0: file system of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected device after the next reload of the device, which could alter system behavior. Because the injected code could persist across device reboots, Cisco has raised the Security Impact Rating (SIR) of this advisory from Medium to High.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required High
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
User Interaction None
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is in the KEV database since April 24, 2024.
Exploitation active
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial
Affected Vendors & Products
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History
Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:15:00 +0000
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Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:15:00 +0000
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Cisco firepower Threat Defense Software |
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CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.14.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.16.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.17.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.20.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:asa:9.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:6.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:6.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:6.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:6.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:7.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:7.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:7.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:7.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense_software:7.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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Vendors & Products |
Cisco asa
Cisco firepower Threat Defense Software |
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Metrics |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisco
Published: 2024-04-24T18:16:49.769Z
Updated: 2025-07-30T01:37:04.169Z
Reserved: 2023-11-08T15:08:07.650Z
Link: CVE-2024-20359

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:59:42.379Z

Status : Analyzed
Published: 2024-04-24T19:15:46.943
Modified: 2025-07-30T19:25:34.327
Link: CVE-2024-20359

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