Vulnerability · Published Apr 8, 2021 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2021-1362Cisco Unified Communications Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity code injection in Cisco Unity Connection from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.8% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.8%top 13.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the SOAP API endpoint of Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition, Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service, Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Prime License Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper sanitization of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a SOAP API request with crafted parameters to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the underlying Linux operating system of the affected device.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Unity Connection	n/a

Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

20210407 Cisco Unified Communications Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO