THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-12690
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-12690

Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
A vulnerability in the web UI of the Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that are executed with the privileges of the root user of the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input to the web UI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input in the web UI. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with full root privileges.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Secure Firewall Management Center
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2019-10-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-12690

  • Confirm whether Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-12690.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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