# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-64qf-4r7v-w6j5

## 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.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-331 (Insufficient Entropy), CWE-334 (Small Space of Random Values)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20941?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20079/): Cisco Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel (critical 10.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-20131](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20131/): Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management Deserialization of Untrusted Data (critical 10.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-20316](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20316/): Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password (medium 5.3, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-20265](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20265/): Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Radius Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-20424](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20424/): Command injection in Cisco Firepower Management Center (critical 9.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-20941 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20941 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20941/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20941/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-20941
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20941
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-20941

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-20941/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.