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 the expected file location. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create or replace any file on the underlying operating system.
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Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000
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| Description | 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 the expected file location. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create or replace any file on the underlying operating system. | |
| Title | Cisco Firepower Management Center Software and Firepower Threat Defense Path Traversal Vulnerability | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-27 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisco
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-04T20:50:59.298Z
Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.351Z
Link: CVE-2026-20018
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-04T18:16:16.407
Modified: 2026-03-04T18:16:16.407
Link: CVE-2026-20018
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