CVE-2026-20330 is an improper-neutralization vulnerability in Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software, and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The flaw concerns insufficient validation and neutralization of structured messages or data before processing or transmission, allowing malformed input that does not meet required security properties to be processed. It is addressed as part of Cisco's software hardening release and has a reported CVSS v3.1 score of 9.9.
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Actively exploited improper-neutralization vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD software.
A Cisco software-hardening advisory covering internally discovered improper-neutralization vulnerabilities (CWE-707) affecting Cisco Secure Adaptive Security Appliance Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software, and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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