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Cisco Unified Communications Manager Command Injection (cisco-sa-vos-command-inject-65s2UCYy)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237901

Synopsis

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

Description

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Unified Communications Manager is affected by a command injection vulnerability.

 - 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. (CVE-2025-20278)

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

Solution

Upgrade to the relevant fixed version referenced in Cisco bug ID CSCwk24029

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cade52c0

https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCwk24029

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237901

File Name: cisco-sa-vos-command-inject-65s2UCYy.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: combined

Family: CISCO

Published: 6/6/2025

Updated: 6/6/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-20278

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:cisco:unified_communications_manager

Required KB Items: Host/Cisco/CUCM/Version, Host/Cisco/CUCM/Version_Display

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-20278

CWE: 77

CISCO-SA: cisco-sa-vos-command-inject-65s2UCYy

IAVA: 2025-A-0400

CISCO-BUG-ID: CSCwk24029