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CVE-2026-20018

A vulnerability in the sftunnel functionality of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to write arbitrary files as root on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the directory path during file synchronization. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a directory path outside of th
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:59eeecfb50ab036b7637739bcf4026a82a536c812ac986ca86ab9a75f3606a91
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/affected/0

{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software","vendor":"Cisco","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.1.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.2"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.2.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.2.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.3"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0.2"},{"status":"affected","version"…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC)","vendor":"Cisco","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.1.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.2"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.2.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.2.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.3"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0.2"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.2.…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/affected/0
{"defaultStatus":"unknown","product":"Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software","vendor":"Cisco","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.1.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.2"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.2.0"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.2.1"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.0.3"},{"status":"affected","version":"7.1.0.2"},{"status":"affected","version"…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"HIGH","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":5.9,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"HIGH","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-27","description":"Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'","lang":"en","type":"cwe"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

1 source assertion
{"name":"cisco-sa-ftdfmc-dir-trav-wERgjhWq","url":"https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftdfmc-dir-trav-wERgjhWq"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:00546efe9b63fcfbf2a9cae621c0078b40b570f5326b2654e284fa4e445613fb · sha256:f00b16f73f12f15b… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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