CVE-2023-20269

Cisco — Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

CISA KEV · in the CISA KEV catalog since 2023-09-13

What EVULNABLE says

EVULNABLE Risk · priority 85/100 Immediate Raised to the floor for a confirmed exploited vulnerability. Intelligence coverage 75/90 — no pre-patch disclosure data
ExigentOverdue by 2.9 yearsRansomwareCISA KEVActively Exploited

Why it matters: Listed in the CISA KEV catalog, and Confirmed exploitation in the wild.

Out-of-Band / Urgent Remediation

The priority band answers “how soon”, not “how bad” — see Methodology for what it weighs and where it abstains.

The evidence behind it

Published measurements for CVE-2023-20269
MeasureValueSource
CVSS base score 9.1 NVD
FIRST EPSS 0.254 (97.8th pctl) FIRST
Actively exploited Confirmed CISA KEV
Ransomware campaign use Known CISA KEV
CISA remediation deadline 2023-10-04 — Overdue by 2.9 years CISA KEV
Intelligence coverage 75/90 — no pre-patch disclosure data

What CISA says to do

This page is an opinion about urgency. Where it and a source of record disagree, the source of record is the record.