FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance ASA software was compromised in September 2025 with a new malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K....

CVE-2017-6600

A vulnerability in the CLI of the Cisco Unified Computing System UCS Manager, Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall NGFW, and Cisco Firepower 9300 Security Appliance could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a command injection attack. More Information: CSCvb61351...