Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense
CVE-2019-12675
Multiple vulnerabilities in the multi-instance feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to escape the container for their FTD instance and execute commands with root privileges in the host namespace. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient protections on the underlying filesystem. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by modifying critical files on the underlying filesystem. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands with root privileges within the host namespace. This could allow the attacker to impact other running FTD instances.
What this means for your business
- It affects Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it only with access to the machine itself, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.7% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 52% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 8.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-216
- Assigned by
- psirt@cisco.com
Dates
- Published
- 2019-10-02
- Last modified
- 2026-08-11
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense- 6.4.0.2
- Cisco Firepower 9300 Firmwareall versions
- Cisco Firepower 9300all versions
- Cisco Firepower 4115 Firmwareall versions
- Cisco Firepower 4115all versions
- Cisco Firepower 4125 Firmwareall versions
- Cisco Firepower 4125all versions
- Cisco Firepower 4145 Firmwareall versions
- Cisco Firepower 4145all versions
- Cisco Firepower 4110 Firmwareall versions
- Cisco Firepower 4110all versions
- Cisco Firepower 4120 Firmwareall versions
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.