Cisco Unified Communications Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability – Source:sec.cloudapps.cisco.com

Medium

Summary

• A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device.

  This vulnerability is due to excessive permissions that have been assigned to system commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the underlying operating system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and gain root privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor.

  Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

  This advisory is available at the following link:
  https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5

Affected Products

• At the time of publication, this vulnerability affected the following Cisco products, regardless of device configuration:

  • Customer Collaboration Platform (CCP), formerly SocialMiner (CSCwj78211)
  • Emergency Responder (CSCwj78216)
  • Finesse (CSCwj78215)
  • Prime Collaboration Deployment (CSCwj78212)
  • Unified Communications Manager (CM) (CSCwi52980)
  • Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (IM&P) (CSCwj78217)
  • Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (CM SME) (CSCwi52980)
  • Unified Contact Center Express (CCX) (CSCwj78214)
  • Unified Intelligence Center (CSCwj78210)
  • Unity Connection (CSCwj78213)
  • Virtualized Voice Browser (CSCwj78219)

  For information about which Cisco software releases were vulnerable at the time of publication, see the Fixed Software section of this advisory. See the Details section in the bug ID(s) at the top of this advisory for the most complete and current information.

  Only products listed in the Vulnerable Products section of this advisory are known to be affected by this vulnerability.

  Cisco has confirmed that this vulnerability does not affect the following Cisco products:

  • Packaged Contact Center Enterprise (CCE)
  • Unified Contact Center Enterprise (CCE)
  • Unified Contact Center Domain Manager (CCDM)
  • Unified Contact Center Management Portal (CCMP)

Workarounds

• There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Fixed Software

• When considering software upgrades, customers are advised to regularly consult the advisories for Cisco products, which are available from the Cisco Security Advisories page, to determine exposure and a complete upgrade solution.

  In all cases, customers should ensure that the devices to be upgraded contain sufficient memory and confirm that current hardware and software configurations will continue to be supported properly by the new release. If the information is not clear, customers are advised to contact the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) or their contracted maintenance providers.

  Fixed Releases

  At the time of publication, the release information in the following tables was accurate. See the Details section in the bug ID(s) at the top of this advisory for the most complete and current information.

  The left column lists Cisco software releases, and the right column indicates whether a release was affected by the vulnerability that is described in this advisory and which release included the fix for this vulnerability.

  Unified Communications Products: Emergency Responder, Prime Collaboration Deployment, Unified CM, Unified CM SME, Unified IM&P, Unity Connection

  Cisco Software Release	First Fixed Release
  12.5(1)	Migrate to a fixed release.
  14	Migrate to a fixed release.
  15	15SU2

  Contact Center Solutions Products: Customer Collaboration Platform, Finesse, Unified CCX, Unified Intelligence Center, Virtualized Voice Browser

  Cisco Software Release	First Fixed Release
  12	Migrate to a fixed release.
  15	Not vulnerable.

  The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) validates only the affected and fixed release information that is documented in this advisory.

Exploitation and Public Announcements

• The Cisco PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

Source

• Cisco would like to thank security researcher Pat Barnhill for reporting this vulnerability.

Cisco Security Vulnerability Policy

• To learn about Cisco security vulnerability disclosure policies and publications, see the Security Vulnerability Policy. This document also contains instructions for obtaining fixed software and receiving security vulnerability information from Cisco.

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URL

• https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5

Revision History

• Version	Description	Section	Status	Date
  1.0	Initial public release.	–	Final	2025-MAY-21

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