Medium [CVE-2026-20008] Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software Lua Code Injection Vulnerability
This medium-severity Cisco advisory covers CVE-2026-20008 affecting Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.1.2, Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.1.3, Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.2.4.
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Summary
A vulnerability in a small subset of CLI commands that are used on Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to craft Lua code that could be used on the underlying operating system as root.
This vulnerability exists because user-provided input is not properly sanitized. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting valid Lua code and submitting it as a malicious parameter for a CLI command.
A successful exploit could allow the attacker to inject Lua code, wh…
Affected products named by the advisory: Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.1.2; Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.1.3; Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.2.4; Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software 9.12.2.5; and 3 more.
- Scope: At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Secure FTD Software, regardless of device configuration.
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
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