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Cisco Secure Firewall CVE-2026-20334

| EUVDEUVD-2026-81133 HIGH
Improper Adherence to Coding Standards (CWE-710)
2026-09-16 cisco GHSA-2vf5-qc6p-8g6v
8.4
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Vendor (cisco) PRIMARY
HIGH
qualitative
NVD
8.4 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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8.4 HIGH

Accepting Cisco's vendor-asserted metrics: network-reachable but gated by high-privilege auth (PR:H) plus required user interaction (UI:R), with a scope-crossing full-impact outcome (S:C, C/I/A:H).

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Analysis Generated
Sep 16, 2026 - 21:41 vuln.today
CVE Published
Sep 16, 2026 - 20:14 nvd
HIGH 8.4

DescriptionNVD

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in a software hardening release that addresses multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.

The vulnerabilities tracked by CVE-2026-20334 are related to issues concerning improper adherence to coding standards that are grouped under the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Pillar CWE-710.

AnalysisAI

Multiple internally-discovered coding-standard defects in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software, Threat Defense (FTD) Software, and Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software can be triggered by an attacker who already holds high-privilege administrative credentials and who can also induce a separate user interaction, potentially yielding high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact that crosses a security scope boundary (CVSS 8.4, CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H). The affected trains span ASA 9.16 through 9.24, FTD 7.0 through 10.0.0, and FMC 7.0 through 10.0.1. …

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Vulnerability AssessmentAI

Exploitation Exploitation requires PR:H - valid high-privilege administrative credentials on the Cisco Secure ASA, FTD, or FMC software - AND UI:R, a separate user interaction to trigger the defect, per the CVSS vector. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment This is a vendor-asserted, grouped hardening-release entry (Cisco advisory cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN) covering multiple internally-discovered issues bundled under CWE-710 (Improper Adherence to Coding Standards, a Pillar-level category), not a single discrete flaw with public root-cause detail. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
Exploit Scenario Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in.
Remediation Patch status: patch available per vendor advisory - Cisco published a software hardening release that addresses these internally discovered issues under advisory cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN (https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN); the specific fixed build numbers for each ASA 9.16-9.24, FTD 7.0-10.0, and FMC 7.0-10.0.1 train are enumerated in that advisory and are not restated in the provided data, so verify the exact fixed image against the advisory before upgrading. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

Recommended ActionAI

Within 24 hours, verify whether your organization uses affected Cisco Secure Firewall ASA (9.16-9.24), Threat Defense (7.0-10.0.0), or Firewall Management Center (7.0-10.0.1) software, and immediately restrict administrative access to these systems to only trusted networks and users with multi-factor authentication enabled. …

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