RCE in Cisco Firepower Management Center

CVE-2025-20306

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with Administrator-level privileges to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation of certain HTTP request parameters that are sent to the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the interface and sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands as the root user on the affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need Administrator-level credentials.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.004 (29.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-20306?
CVE-2025-20306 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Management Center, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-08-14.
How severe is CVE-2025-20306?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.