CVE-2024-20359Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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.

6.0 MEDIUMEPSS 18.81%⚡ Known Exploited (CISA KEV)NVD: Analyzed

Last updated: 2026-08-11 19:33 UTC

Overview Affected Products References

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Overview

Severity

Score	Severity	Version	Vector String
6.0	MEDIUM	3.1cisco (CNA)	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA required action

⚡ Known exploited · remediation due May 1, 2024

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Details

CVE ID: CVE-2024-20359
Status: Analyzed
Assigner (CNA): cisco
Published: Apr 24, 2024
Last modified: 2026-08-11 19:33 UTC
Weaknesses: CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

As published by the CNA in the CVE record.

CiscoCisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software187 version ranges

9.8.1
9.8.1.5
9.8.1.7
9.8.2
9.8.2.8
9.8.2.14
9.8.2.15
9.8.2.17
9.8.2.20
9.8.2.24
9.8.2.26
9.8.2.28
9.8.2.33
9.8.2.35
9.8.2.38
9.8.3.8
9.8.3.11
9.8.3.14
9.8.3.16
9.8.3.18
9.8.3.21
9.8.3
9.8.3.26
9.8.3.29
9.8.4
9.8.4.3
9.8.4.7
9.8.4.8
9.8.4.10
9.8.4.12
9.8.4.15
9.8.4.17
9.8.4.25
9.8.4.20
9.8.4.22
9.8.4.26
9.8.4.29
9.8.4.32
9.8.4.33
9.8.4.34
9.8.4.35
9.8.4.39
9.8.4.40
9.8.4.41
9.8.4.43
9.8.4.44
9.8.4.45
9.8.4.46
9.8.4.48
9.12.1
9.12.1.2
9.12.1.3
9.12.2
9.12.2.4
9.12.2.5
9.12.2.9
9.12.3
9.12.3.2
9.12.3.7
9.12.4
9.12.3.12
9.12.3.9
9.12.2.1
9.12.4.2
9.12.4.4
9.12.4.7
9.12.4.10
9.12.4.13
9.12.4.8
9.12.4.18
9.12.4.24
9.12.4.26
9.12.4.29
9.12.4.30
9.12.4.35
9.12.4.37
9.12.4.38
9.12.4.39
9.12.4.40
9.12.4.41
9.12.4.47
9.12.4.48
9.12.4.50
9.12.4.52
9.12.4.54
9.12.4.55
9.12.4.56
9.12.4.58
9.12.4.62
9.12.4.65
9.14.1
9.14.1.10
9.14.1.6
9.14.1.15
9.14.1.19
9.14.1.30
9.14.2
9.14.2.4
9.14.2.8
9.14.2.13
9.14.2.15
9.14.3
9.14.3.1
9.14.3.9
9.14.3.11
9.14.3.13
9.14.3.18
9.14.3.15
9.14.4
9.14.4.6
9.14.4.7
9.14.4.12
9.14.4.13
9.14.4.14
9.14.4.15
9.14.4.17
9.14.4.22
9.14.4.23
9.15.1
9.15.1.7
9.15.1.10
9.15.1.15
9.15.1.16
9.15.1.17
9.15.1.1
9.15.1.21
9.16.1
9.16.1.28
9.16.2
9.16.2.3
9.16.2.7
9.16.2.11
9.16.2.13
9.16.2.14
9.16.3
9.16.3.3
9.16.3.14
9.16.3.15
9.16.3.19
9.16.3.23
9.16.4
9.16.4.9
9.16.4.14
9.16.4.18
9.16.4.19
9.16.4.27
9.16.4.38
9.16.4.39
9.16.4.42
9.16.4.48
9.16.4.55
9.17.1
9.17.1.7
9.17.1.9
9.17.1.10
9.17.1.11
9.17.1.13
9.17.1.15
9.17.1.20
9.17.1.30
9.17.1.33
9.18.1
9.18.1.3
9.18.2
9.18.2.5
9.18.2.7
9.18.2.8
9.18.3
9.18.3.39
9.18.3.46
9.18.3.53
9.18.3.55
9.18.3.56
9.18.4
9.18.4.5
9.18.4.8
9.19.1
9.19.1.5
9.19.1.9
9.19.1.12
9.19.1.18
9.19.1.22
9.19.1.24
9.19.1.27
9.20.1
9.20.1.5
9.20.2

CiscoCisco Firepower Threat Defense Software80 version ranges

6.2.3
6.2.3.1
6.2.3.2
6.2.3.3
6.2.3.4
6.2.3.5
6.2.3.6
6.2.3.7
6.2.3.8
6.2.3.10
6.2.3.11
6.2.3.9
6.2.3.12
6.2.3.13
6.2.3.14
6.2.3.15
6.2.3.16
6.2.3.17
6.2.3.18
6.6.0
6.6.0.1
6.6.1
6.6.3
6.6.4
6.6.5
6.6.5.1
6.6.5.2
6.6.7
6.6.7.1
6.4.0
6.4.0.1
6.4.0.3
6.4.0.2
6.4.0.4
6.4.0.5
6.4.0.6
6.4.0.7
6.4.0.8
6.4.0.9
6.4.0.10
6.4.0.11
6.4.0.12
6.4.0.13
6.4.0.14
6.4.0.15
6.4.0.16
6.4.0.17
6.7.0
6.7.0.1
6.7.0.2
6.7.0.3
7.0.0
7.0.0.1
7.0.1
7.0.1.1
7.0.2
7.0.2.1
7.0.3
7.0.4
7.0.5
7.0.6
7.0.6.1
7.1.0
7.1.0.1
7.1.0.2
7.1.0.3
7.2.0
7.2.0.1
7.2.1
7.2.2
7.2.3
7.2.4
7.2.4.1
7.2.5
7.2.5.1
7.3.0
7.3.1
7.3.1.1
7.4.0
7.4.1

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