CVE-2024-20431: Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the geolocation access control feature of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass an access control policy. This vulnerability is due to improper assignment of geolocation data. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass a geolocation-based access control policy and successfully send traffic to a protected device.

Affected products

• Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.0.0.1 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.1.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.2.1 only; …

Published 2024-10-23. Last modified 2026-08-11.