Riskcovery

CVE-2023-20266

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Aug 30, 2023
Updated
Jul 1, 2025
Reserved
Oct 27, 2022

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Ncisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cisco Emergency ResponderCisco
  • 12.5(1)SU4Affected
  • 12.5(1)SU8aAffected
  • 14SU3Affected
Cisco Unity ConnectionCisco
  • 12.5(1)SU6Affected
  • 12.5(1)SU7Affected
  • 12.5(1)SU8Affected
  • 14SU2Affected
  • 14SU3Affected
Cisco Unified Communications ManagerCisco
  • 12.5(1)SU8Affected

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