Vulnerability · Published Jun 4, 2025 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2025-20278Cisco Unified Communications Products Command Injection Vulnerability

Medium 6.0

In plain English

A medium-severity command injection in Cisco Finesse from Cisco. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 8% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.0Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 91.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the CLI of multiple Cisco Unified Communications products could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device as the root user. This vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied command arguments. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the CLI of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of an affected device as the root user. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid administrative credentials.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Cisco Cisco Finesse 11.0(1)ES_Rollback10.5(1)ES411.6(1)ES311.0(1)ES212.0(1)ES210.5(1)ES311.0(1)11.6(1)FIPS
Cisco Cisco SocialMiner 12.5(1)ES0110.5(1)11.6(1)10.6(1)12.0(1)ES0410.6(2)12.5(1)11.6(2)
Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager 12.5(1)SU212.5(1)SU112.5(1)12.5(1)SU312.5(1)SU41412.5(1)SU514SU1
Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service 12.5(1)12.5(1)SU112.5(1)SU212.5(1)SU312.5(1)SU41412.5(1)SU514SU1
Cisco Cisco Unified Contact Center Express 10.6(1)10.5(1)SU110.6(1)SU312.0(1)10.0(1)SU110.6(1)SU111.0(1)SU111.5(1)SU1
Cisco Cisco Unified Intelligence Center 11.6(1)10.5(1)11.0(1)11.5(1)12.0(1)12.5(1)11.0(2)12.6(1)
Cisco Cisco Unity Connection 12.5(1)12.5(1)SU112.5(1)SU212.5(1)SU312.5(1)SU41412.5(1)SU514SU1
Cisco Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser 11.0(1)11.6(1)_ES8411.5(1)_ES5411.5(1)_ES2711.5(1)11.5(1)ES3612.0(1)_ES0111.6(1)_ES85

Weakness: CWE-77 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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