A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to excessive permissions that have been assigned to system commands.&nbsp;An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the underlying operating system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and gain root privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor.

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Unity Connection is affected by privilege escalation vulnerability.

  - A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow     an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability     is due to excessive permissions that have been assigned to system commands.An attacker could exploit     this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the underlying operating system. A successful exploit     could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and gain root privileges on the underlying     operating system of an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need     administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor. (CVE-2025-20112)

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Emergency Responder is affected by privilege escalation vulnerability.

  - A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow     an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability     is due to excessive permissions that have been assigned to system commands.An attacker could exploit     this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the underlying operating system. A successful exploit     could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and gain root privileges on the underlying     operating system of an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need     administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor. (CVE-2025-20112)

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Unified Communications Products is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

  - A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow     an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability     is due to excessive permissions that have been assigned to system commands.An attacker could exploit     this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the underlying operating system. A successful exploit     could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and gain root privileges on the underlying     operating system of an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need     administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor. (CVE-2025-20112)

Please see the included Cisco BIDs and Cisco Security Advisory for more information.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
241632	Cisco Unity Connection Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5)	Nessus	CISCO	medium
237710	Cisco Emergency Responder Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5)	Nessus	CISCO	medium
237302	Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5)	Nessus	CISCO	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2025-20112

medium

Tenable Plugins

medium

medium

medium