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Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense
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Cisco's Secure Firewall products are currently vulnerable to high-severity RCE and authentication bypass flaws that are actively being exploited in the wild, requiring immediate patching and network segmentation.
PROFILE
Categorynetwork securityWhat they doSecure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense are Cisco firewall products designed to protect networks from threats.
SECURITY POSTURE
The security posture is compromised by recent high-severity vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, indicating a failure in timely patching and vulnerability management.
Notable failures
- CVE-2025-20333: RCE via buffer overflow
- CVE-2025-20362: Missing authentication vulnerability
Patterns: active exploitation of unpatched high-severity vulnerabilities
FAILURE HISTORY · 2
| DATE | EVENT | SEV | SUMMARY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-25 | CVE-2025-20333 | high | Cisco ASA and FTD suffered remote code execution due to a buffer overflow, actively exploited in the wild. |
| 2025-09-25 | CVE-2025-20362 | high | Cisco firewalls with missing auth vuln exploited in wild |
Open questions: Are there additional unpatched vulnerabilities in the Secure Firewall product line?
DOSSIER · dex-RAG synthesis · grounded in our own collection + trusted sourcesbuilt 2026-09-05 03:54:24.717632+00:00