Vulnerability · Published Jan 14, 2022 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2022-20660Cisco IP Phones Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Medium 4.6

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.6Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 71.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the information storage architecture of several Cisco IP Phone models could allow an unauthenticated, physical attacker to obtain confidential information from an affected device. This vulnerability is due to unencrypted storage of confidential information on an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by physically extracting and accessing one of the flash memory chips. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain confidential information from the device, which could be used for subsequent attacks.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software	n/a

Weakness: CWE-312 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

20220113 Cisco IP Phones Information Disclosure Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO
20220114 SEC Consult SA-20220113-0 :: Cleartext Storage of Phone Password in Cisco IP Phones mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165567/Cisco-IP-Phone-Cleartext-Password-Storage.html x_refsource_MISC