CVE-2019-12690 Cisco Firepower Management Center Command Injection Vulnerability
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary commands via the web UI to execute code with root privileges on Cisco Firepower Management Center devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-12690?
CVE-2019-12690 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, published on 2 Oct 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in the web UI of the Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands that are executed with the privileges of the root user of the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input to the web UI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted input in the web UI. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the device with full root privileges.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-12690?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.
How do I fix CVE-2019-12690?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-12690 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2019-12690 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-12690 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
- CVE-2026-20079 Cisco Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
- CVE-2026-20131 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password
- CVE-2025-20265 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Radius Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2024-20424 Command injection in Cisco Firepower Management Center
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x456-rcmj-vm7c.