CVE-2026-20131

Published Mar 4, 2026

Last updated 2 months ago

Exploit knownCVSS critical 10.0
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Overview

Description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary Java code as root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of a user-supplied Java byte stream. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device and elevate privileges to root. Note: If the FMC management interface does not have public internet access, the attack surface that is associated with this vulnerability is reduced.
Source
psirt@cisco.com
NVD status
Analyzed
Products
secure_firewall_management_center

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
10
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

Known exploits

Data from CISA

Vulnerability name
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
Exploit added on
Mar 19, 2026
Exploit action due
Mar 22, 2026
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Weaknesses

psirt@cisco.com
CWE-502

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending
  1. 🔴 Ransomware Intel WANNACRY Ransomware Gang: 33 New Victims Posted — Critical Infrastructure Targe… "CVE-2023-21529:** Microsoft Exchange Server Deserialization CVE-2026-20131:**…" 🔗 https://t.co/Po7R1rGfvC #CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel #ransomwaregang #wannacry #ra

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  2. Top 5 Trending CVEs: 1 - CVE-2024-32002 2 - CVE-2025-20333 3 - CVE-2026-20131 4 - CVE-2026-33626 5 - CVE-2024-57726 #cve #cvetrends #cveshield #cybersecurity https://t.co/4Fua3CAN6W

    @CVEShield

    27 Apr 2026

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  3. 🚨 THREAT INTEL Mar 25 | 🔴 CRITICAL RCE: Cisco FMC CVE-2026-20131 (ransomware active!) | 🟠 Patch TODAY: n8n CVE-2025-68613 | 🦠 Active: QakBot, Vidar, CobaltStrike | ⚠️ Russian APT hijacking Signal/WhatsApp | 🛡️ Block: 50.16.16.211 #CyberSecurity #ThreatIntel h

    @404LABSx

    25 Mar 2026

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  4. Ip Protocol 1. KEV-DELTA SYNC (MAR 23): •CRITICAL: CISA added CVE-2025-32432 (Craft CMS) and CVE-2025-54068 (Laravel Livewire) to the KEV catalog on Friday, March 20. •PATCH DEADLINE: Federal agencies must remediate by April 3, 2026. •NEW ADDITION: CVE-2026-20131

    @SteveAJ777

    23 Mar 2026

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  5. Three major Cisco management platform vulnerabilities in 2026. All in web interfaces. All CVSS 9+. CVE-2026-20131 (FMC) — CVSS 10, RCE as root CVE-2026-20127 (SD-WAN vManage) — RCE CVE-2023-20198 (IOS-XE web UI) — privilege escalation The pattern is undeniable: web-based

    @FirstPassLab

    21 Mar 2026

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Configurations

  1. PackageKit is a a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. PackageKit between and including versions 1.0.2 and 1.3.4 is vulnerable to a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition on transaction flags that allows unprivileged users to install packages as root and thus leads to a local privilege escalation. This is patched in version 1.3.5. A local unprivileged user can install arbitrary RPM packages as root, including executing RPM scriptlets, without authentication. The vulnerability is a TOCTOU race condition on `transaction->cached_transaction_flags` combined with a silent state-machine guard that discards illegal backward transitions while leaving corrupted flags in place. Three bugs exist in `src/pk-transaction.c`: 1. Unconditional flag overwrite (line 4036): `InstallFiles()` writes caller-supplied flags to `transaction->cached_transaction_flags` without checking whether the transaction has already been authorized/started. A second call blindly overwrites the flags even while the transaction is RUNNING. 2. Silent state-transition rejection (lines 873–882): `pk_transaction_set_state()` silently discards backward state transitions (e.g. `RUNNING` → `WAITING_FOR_AUTH`) but the flag overwrite at step 1 already happened. The transaction continues running with corrupted flags. 3. Late flag read at execution time (lines 2273–2277): The scheduler's idle callback reads cached_transaction_flags at dispatch time, not at authorization time. If flags were overwritten between authorization and execution, the backend sees the attacker's flags.CVE-2026-41651