Vulnerability · Published Jul 6, 2022 · Assigned by cisco
CVE-2022-20791Cisco Unified Communications Products Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Cisco Unified Communications Manager from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability in the database user privileges of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient file permission restrictions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted command from the API to the application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of the affected device. The attacker would need valid user credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Unified Communications Manager | n/a |
Weakness: CWE-36 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- 20220706 Cisco Unified Communications Products Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO