April 24, 2024 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2024-20359 — Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2024-04-24- Federal due date
2024-05-01- Vendor
- Cisco
- Product
- Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
- EPSS
- 97.0th percentile (score 0.194, as of
2026-07-13) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- ATT&CK
- T1037 , T1059 , T1078 · signal rollup
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20359
CISA short description
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow local privilege escalation from Administrator to root.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.