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CVE-2020-3514

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3514 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software's multi-instance feature. An authenticated attacker with valid credentials could escape their container and execute commands with root privileges on the host system, potentially impacting other FTD instances or the underlying Cisco FXOS device. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.7 (MEDIUM), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring high privileges to exploit, but leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 6.3.0, < 6.3.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.4.0, < 6.4.0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.5.0, < 6.5.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:firepower_threat_defense:6.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 6.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_management_center:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-container-esc-FmYqFBQV
Vendor Advisory