As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.   The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20332 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-284.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Cisco
  • Adaptive Security Appliance Software
  • Secure Firewall Management Center
  • Secure Firewall Threat Defense

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References
Link Providers
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Cisco
Cisco adaptive Security Appliance Software
Cisco secure Firewall Management Center
Cisco secure Firewall Threat Defense
Vendors & Products Cisco
Cisco adaptive Security Appliance Software
Cisco secure Firewall Management Center
Cisco secure Firewall Threat Defense

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.   The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20332 are related to improper access control issues that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-284.
Title Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Secure Firewall Management Center Software Hardening Release - Improper Access Control Vulnerabilities
Weaknesses CWE-284
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2026-09-16T20:13:54.216Z

Updated: 2026-09-18T19:10:06.697Z

Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.412Z

Link: CVE-2026-20332

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-17T11:31:51.169Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-16T21:17:10.480

Modified: 2026-09-18T20:17:14.310

Link: CVE-2026-20332

cve-icon Redhat

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