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CVE-2022-20859

Cisco Unified Communications Products Access Control Vulnerability

Published: Jul 6, 2022Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-284
NVD MITRE
6.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.1%
Top 39.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
0 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

A vulnerability in the Disaster Recovery framework of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), and Cisco Unity Connection could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions they should not be able to. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control checks on the affected device. An attacker with read-only privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform a set of administrative actions they should not be able to.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:NI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-284NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

Cisco Unified Communications ManagerCisco
On-prem
Communications / voip-telephony
unified communications managercisco
On-premNetwork Device
Networking Infrastructure
unified communications manager im and presence servicecisco
On-prem
Communications / messaging-chat
unity connectioncisco
On-premWeb App
Communications / messaging-chat
Cisco Unified Communications ManagerCisco Systems Inc.
On-prem
Communications / voip-telephony
ciscocommercialUSNetworking Infrastructureaka cisco systems, cisco systems inc.
cisco systems inc.commercialUSNetworking Infrastructureaka cisco systems, cisco
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Exploitability

0 exploit sources identified

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Official Patch Available

References

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ucm-access-dMKvV2DY
tools.cisco.com

Timeline

Published
Jul 6, 2022
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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