SB2026030648 - Privilege escalation in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)



SB2026030648 - Privilege escalation in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA)

Published: March 6, 2026

Security Bulletin ID SB2026030648
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-20008)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A local privileged user can submit a specially crafting valid Lua code as a malicious parameter for a CLI command and execute arbitrary OS commands as root. 


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.