8.5

CVE-2025-20148: cisco cisco firepower management center Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 8.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
Published 14-08-2025Last modified 14-08-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-20148 is a high (CVSS 8.5) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in cisco cisco firepower management center. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.46%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 14-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 14-08-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTML content into a device-generated document. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting malicious content to an affected device and using the device to generate a document that contains sensitive information. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to alter the standard layout of the device-generated documents, read arbitrary files from the underlying operating system, and conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of Security Analyst (Read Only).

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.46%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

38%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.44% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.46%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cisco2 products
  • cisco firepower management center7.2.4 | 7.0.6 | 7.2.4.1 | 7.2.5 | 7.4.0 | 7.0.6.1 | 7.2.5.1 | 7.4.1 | 7.2.6 | 7.4.1.1 | 7.0.6.2 | 7.2.7 | 7.2.5.2 | 7.2.8 | 7.4.2 | 7.2.8.1 | 7.0.6.3 | 7.4.2.1 | 7.2.9
  • secure_firewall_management_center7.0.6 | 7.0.6.1 | 7.0.6.2 | 7.0.6.3 | 7.2.4 | 7.2.4.1 | 7.2.5 | 7.2.5.1 | 7.2.5.2 | 7.2.6 | 7.2.7 | 7.2.8 | 7.2.8.1 | 7.2.9 | 7.4.0 | 7.4.1 | 7.4.1.1 | 7.4.2 | 7.4.2.1

1 vendor · 2 products

References

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