Vulnerability
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense contain an unauthorized access vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations or establish a clientless SSL VPN session with an unauthorized user.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions for group-lock and vpn-simultaneous-logins or discontinue use of the product for unsupported devices.
CISA description: “Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense contain an unauthorized access vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations or establish a clientless SSL VPN session with an unauthorized user.”
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:NMid-pack — moderate exploitation likelihood.
No VEX statements published for CVE-2023-20269. Vendors publish VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) to assert per-product whether a CVE is actually exploitable in their distribution.
Active exploitation with limited impact — coordinate patching