CVE-2025-20265
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Radius Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vexday Risk Score
53Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
CVSS 10EPSS 14.5%KEV nãoPoC públicaPatch —
Lifecycle
Aug 14, 2025Published on NVD
Aug 15, 2025Public PoC
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
A vulnerability in the RADIUS subsystem implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are executed by the device.
This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper handling of user input during the authentication phase. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input when entering credentials that will be authenticated at the configured RADIUS server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands at a high privilege level.
Note: For this vulnerability to be exploited, Cisco Secure FMC Software must be configured for RADIUS authentication for the web-based management interface, SSH management, or both.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Cisco · Cisco Firepower Management Centerpublic PoCs found — 3
githubgithub.com/jordan922/cve2025-20265★ 4githubgithub.com/amalpvatayam67/day08-CISCO-fmc-sim★ 1githubgithub.com/saruman9/cve_2025_20265★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
Want to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
Talk to TrueHacking →References
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-fmc-radius-rce-TNBKf79https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-warns-of-max-severity-flaw-in-firewall-management-center/https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/cisco_secure_firewall_management_bug/