Improper Handling of Values in Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) - CVE-2025-20268
Published: August 15, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU114109
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-20268
CWE-ID: CWE-229
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass configured policies on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the URL string is not fully parsed in the Geolocation-Based Remote Access (RA) VPN feature. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP connection to bypass configured policies and gain access to a network where the connection should have been denied.
Affected software
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD)
How to mitigate CVE-2025-20268
Install updates from vendor's website.
Cisco Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) - update to 7.7.10