Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Oct 21, 2020· Updated Aug 11, 2026
CVE-2020-3564
CVE-2020-3564
Description
A vulnerability in the FTP inspection engine of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass FTP inspection. The vulnerability is due to ineffective flow tracking of FTP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted FTP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass FTP inspection and successfully complete FTP connections.
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Affected products
6cpe:2.3:a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <9.6
- cpe:2.3:o:cisco:adaptive_security_appliance_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=9.8.0,<9.8.4.26
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:secure_firewall_threat_defense:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: <6.3.0.6
- Range: n/a
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