CVE-2019-1709 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Command Injection Vulnerability
An authenticated local attacker can inject commands into the CLI to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on Cisco Firepower Threat Defense devices.
- 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-2019-1709?
CVE-2019-1709 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-2019-1709?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.
How do I fix CVE-2019-1709?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-1709 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-2019-1709 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1709 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-q7vf-v5j3-x8f5.