Vulnerability · Published Jul 6, 2022 · Assigned by cisco

CVE-2022-20859Cisco Unified Communications Products Access Control Vulnerability

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity improper access control 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 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability in the Disaster Recovery framework of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), and Cisco Unity Connection could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions they should not be able to. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control checks on the affected device. An attacker with read-only privileges could exploit this vulnerability by executing a specific vulnerable command on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform a set of administrative actions they should not be able to.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Cisco	Cisco Unified Communications Manager	n/a

Weakness: CWE-284 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

20220706 Cisco Unified Communications Products Access Control Vulnerability vendor-advisory, x_refsource_CISCO