Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
YES - ON THE CISA KEV LIST
CVE-2024-20359
Cisco ASA and FTD Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
overdue since 2024-05-01
Cisco: 103 entries (5.8% of all KEV entries are from this vendor); 21 added in 2026.
BOD 26-04 note: this is the date printed in the CISA catalog. A federal agency's actual deadline is set by its SSVC tier - Act (3 days), Attend (14 days), Track (60 days), or the next scheduled upgrade - counted from the KEV listing date or the date the vulnerability is identified in its environment, whichever comes first. Use the tier helper on each CVE page for your own window.
Your BOD 26-04 window (SSVC tier helper)
Your remediation window ends:
Description
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability that can allow local privilege escalation from Administrator to root.
Required action (CISA)
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-asaftd-persist-rce-FLsNXF4h; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20359
References
Other KEV entries for this vendor: Cisco
- CVE-2026-20320 - BroadWorks (2026-11-10)
- CVE-2026-76418 - Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software (2026-10-29)
- CVE-2026-76519 - Secure Email Gateway (2026-10-14)
- CVE-2026-76504 - Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (2026-09-30)
- CVE-2026-76460 - Identity Services Engine (2026-09-16)
- CVE-2026-76461 - Secure Email Gateway (2026-09-14)
- CVE-2026-20079 - Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management (2026-09-09)
- CVE-2026-20349 - Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) (2026-08-11)
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