Known exploited · Cisco
CVE-2024-20359: Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
What it is
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.
- Vendor
- Cisco
- Product
- Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
- Added to KEV
- April 24, 2024
- CISA due date
- May 1, 2024
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
What CISA requires
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Forensic triage
No
What to do now
- Find every instance of Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) you run, including the forgotten ones, and check its version against the vendor advisory.
- Apply the vendor's fix or mitigation, before May 1, 2024 if you are bound by CISA's deadline, sooner if it faces the internet.
- Assume it was tried against you already: look for signs of exploitation from the date it was added, not from the day you patched.
- Until every instance is patched, block the attack at the edge: a WAF in blocking mode stops PHP and Node.js code injection payloads.
References
The Dome
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Start freeSource: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (public domain), catalog version 2026.10.01.