Vulnerability · Published Jul 6, 2022 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2022-20862Cisco Unified Communications Manager Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

Medium 4.3

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 74% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 25.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request that contains directory traversal character sequences to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to access sensitive files on the operating system.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Unified Communications Manager	n/a

Weakness: CWE-23 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

20220706 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO