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🛡️ CVE-2026-20131 — secure-firewall-management-center

🔴 CVSS 10.0 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-502 NVD
10.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary Java code as root on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of a user-supplied Java byte stream. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device and elevate privileges to root.

Note: If the FMC management interface does not have public internet access, the attack surface that is associated with this vulnerability is reduced.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-20131 is classified as CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data. Serialised data from an untrusted source is reconstructed into objects, which can trigger code during the process.

Affected software

CVE-2026-20131 is recorded against 1 package.

  • secure-firewall-management-center

Timeline and source

Published on 4 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com
aws.amazon.com
www.cisa.gov

Other advisories for this package

secure-firewall-management-center has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data) in other software:

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 10.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-04
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
secure-firewall-management-center — —

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