CVE-2025-20112

Cisco Unified Communications Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.1
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.001
2.5th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
May 21, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

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.

Weakness: CWE-268

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco Contact Center Other Products cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Emergency Responder Other Products cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure Network & Security Management cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Unified Communications Manager Other Products cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Unity Connection Other Products cna-assigner
Cisco Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (10)
  • Cisco · Cisco Emergency Responder
  • Cisco · Cisco Finesse
  • Cisco · Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment
  • Cisco · Cisco SocialMiner
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Communications Manager
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Contact Center Express
  • Cisco · Cisco Unified Intelligence Center
  • Cisco · Cisco Unity Connection
  • Cisco · Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser