CVE-2024-20431 Security feature bypass in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software

What is CVE-2024-20431?

CVE-2024-20431 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense, published on 23 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the geolocation access control feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass an access control policy. This vulnerability is due to improper assignment of geolocation data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass a geolocation-based access control policy and successfully send traffic to a protected device.

Weakness: CWE-229

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20431?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense.

How do I fix CVE-2024-20431?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20431 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-20431 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense

• CVE-2024-20412 Hardcoded credentials in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Critical 9.3
• CVE-2024-20330 Memory corruption in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software High 8.6
• CVE-2024-20339 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software for Firepower 2100 Series TLS Denial of Service Vulnerability High 8.6
• CVE-2024-20351 Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Snort Firewall Denial of Service Vulnerability High 8.6
• CVE-2023-20083 Denial of service in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software High 8.6

All Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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