Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software CVE-2019-12694 Local Command Injection Vulnerability

Description

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software is prone to a local command-injection vulnerability. An attacker may exploit this issue to inject and execute arbitrary commands on the underlying OS with root privileges. This issue being tracked by Cisco Bug IDs CSCvo45799.

Technologies Affected

• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.1.0
• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.2.0
• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.2.1
• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.2.2
• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.2.3
• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.3.0
• Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software (FTD) 6.4.0

Recommendations

Permit local access for trusted individuals only. Where possible, use restricted environments and restricted shells.
Restrict local access to trusted and accountable individuals only.

Run all software as a nonprivileged user with minimal access rights.
To limit the impact of latent vulnerabilities, configure servers and other applications to run as a nonadministrative user with minimal access rights.

Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.