CVE-2022-20941 Missing authorization in Cisco Firepower Management Center
Unauthenticated attackers can enumerate resources and retrieve sensitive information from Cisco Firepower Management Center due to missing authorization and weak resource naming.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-20941?
CVE-2022-20941 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, published on 10 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information. This vulnerability is due to missing authorization for certain resources in the web-based management interface together with insufficient entropy in these resource names. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of HTTPS requests to an affected device to enumerate resources on the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to retrieve sensitive information from the device.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20941?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.
How do I fix CVE-2022-20941?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20941 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2022-20941 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20941 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-64qf-4r7v-w6j5.