cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhN: Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance, Secure Firewall Threat Defense, and Secure Firewall Management Center Software Hardening Release: September 2026

Published Sep 16, 2026
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Updated

As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities.  These vulnerabilities were found during internal testing. Two of them are known to be actively exploited. For more information, see the following advisories: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Static Credential Vulnerability and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. To assist customers in patching and to streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues by their underlying vulnerability class — Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) — and assigned a single Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Identifier (CVE ID) to each CWE grouping.Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities.This advisory is available at the following link:https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-hardening-asaftdfmc-uvpPROhNThis advisory is part of a group of advisories. For a complete list of the advisories and links to them, see Cisco Advance Notification for Publication of September 16, 2026, Security Advisories. 

Affected Software

3 affected components
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software
Cisco Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software

Event History

Sep 16, 2026
Advisory Published
via Cisco·04:00 PM
Data Sourced
via Cisco·04:00 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

Frequently Asked Questions

1

Are any of the issues covered by this hardening release known to be under active exploitation?

Yes. Two of the internally discovered vulnerabilities addressed by the release are known to be actively exploited. The referenced advisories identify them as an FMC static credential vulnerability and an FMC authentication bypass vulnerability.

2

Is there a mitigation available if software updates cannot be applied immediately?

No. The advisory states that there are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities. Cisco has released software updates to remediate them.

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