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Critical · 10.0 Public exploit CVE-2025-20265 EUVD-2025-24840GHSA-rc2h-jcr9-jm85

Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Radius Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Aug 14, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the RADIUS subsystem implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands that are executed by the device. 

This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper handling of user input during the authentication phase. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted input when entering credentials that will be authenticated at the configured RADIUS server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute commands at a high privilege level.
Note: For this vulnerability to be exploited, Cisco Secure FMC Software must be configured for RADIUS authentication for the web-based management interface, SSH management, or both.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 7.0.7, 7.7.0 —

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 3 repositories

  • jordan922/cve2025-20265 ★ 4 · Aug 15, 2025

    Safe Python script to detect Cisco FMC instances potentially vulnerable to CVE-2025-20265. Uses official FMC API to check version, supports single/multi-target scanning, and includes a harmless local…

  • amalpvatayam67/day08-CISCO-fmc-sim ★ 1 · Sep 20, 2025

    This is a minimal, educational simulation that demonstrates the _impact_ class of a management-plane parsing RCE (inspired by CVE-2025-20265). It intentionally executes commands from crafted input fo…

  • saruman9/cve_2025_20265 ★ 0 · Sep 16, 2025

    PoC for CVE-2025-20265 Cisco Secure FMC Software RADIUS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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