Cisco Emergency Responder Privilege Escalation (cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237710

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug IDs CSCwj78216

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d880af01

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwj78216

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237710

File Name: cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5_cer.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 6/3/2025

Updated: 6/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:P/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-20112

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:emergency_responder

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Cisco Emergency Responder (CER)

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/21/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-20112

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCwj78216