CVE-2019-1699 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Command Injection Vulnerability
An authenticated local attacker can inject commands into the Cisco FTD CLI to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-1699?
CVE-2019-1699 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, published on 3 May 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting commands into arguments for a specific command. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands with root privileges.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1699?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.
How do I fix CVE-2019-1699?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-1699 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-2019-1699 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1699 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- 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-w3p4-prcf-cgm4.