CVE-2025-20219

Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.3
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
31.0th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Published by the vendor
Published
Aug 14, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the implementation of access control rules for loopback interfaces in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send traffic that should have been blocked to a loopback interface. This vulnerability is due to improper enforcement of access control rules for loopback interfaces. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic to a loopback interface on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured access control rules and send traffic that should have been blocked to a loopback interface on the device.

Weakness: CWE-284

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (2)
  • Cisco · Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
  • Cisco · Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software