VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-20120

medium
Assigned by CNA: cisco
Published 2026-09-16 · Modified 2026-09-16
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CVSS v3
5.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

A vulnerability in the access control list (ACL) Object Group Search (OGS) implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured access controls. This vulnerability is due to a logic error in populating group access control policies (ACPs) with OGS configured. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic that should be blocked through the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass access controls and reach devices in protected networks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
68%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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