Cisco Cisco Emergency Responder

CVE-2023-20266
MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.49 % Β· percentile 42 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unity Connection could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because the application does not properly restrict the files that are being used for upgrades. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a crafted upgrade file. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to elevate privileges to root. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid platform administrator credentials on an affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-347 β€” Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
  • CWE-269 β€” Improper Privilege Management

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD Β· psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD Β· nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco Β· Cisco Emergency Responderaffected 12.5(1)SU4 ; affected 12.5(1)SU8a ; affected 14SU3
Cisco Β· Cisco Unity Connectionaffected 12.5(1)SU6 ; affected 12.5(1)SU7 ; affected 12.5(1)SU8 ; affected 14SU2 ; affected 14SU3
Cisco Β· Cisco Unified Communications Manageraffected 12.5(1)SU8

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD