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Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software and Firepower Threat Defense Software Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Sep 23, 2020

Description

A vulnerability in the implementation of the Lua interpreter integrated in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the allowed Lua function calls within the context of user-supplied Lua scripts. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to trigger a heap overflow condition and execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of an affected device.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner cisco
Published Sep 23, 2020
Updated Nov 13, 2024
Reserved Sep 6, 2019
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Nov 13, 2024
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Aug 11, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a