High severity · published Jul 6, 2022
CVE-2022-20859
A vulnerability in the Disaster Recovery framework of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM…
8.8
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UC
Unified Communications Manager · Cisco
14.0 before 14su2 · source: NVD
UC
Unified Communications Manager IM And Presence Service · Cisco
14.0 before 14.0su2 · source: NVD
UC
Unity Connection · Cisco
14.0 before 14su2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20859
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-20859
Vendor Advisory
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ucm-access-dMKvV2DY
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