CVE-2023-20269 added to CISA KEV: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense
Status: ✅ Confirmed exploited in the wild
Date added: 2023-09-13
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions for group-lock and vpn-simultaneous-logins or discontinue use of the product for unsupported devices.
Due date: 2023-10-04
Why this matters
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense contain an unauthorized access vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations or establish a clientless SSL VPN session with an unauthorized user.
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