Critical Cisco Unity Connection flaw gives attackers root privileges. Patch now!

Cisco has fixed a critical vulnerability in Cisco Unity Connection that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files and gain root privilege on the affected system.
Cisco Unity Connection is a unified messaging and voicemail solution for email inbox, web browser, Cisco Jabber, Cisco Unified IP Phone, smartphone, and tablet.
CVE-2024-20272 is an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unity Connection that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated threat actor to upload arbitrary files to a targeted system, execute commands on the underlying operating system and gain root privileges.
CVE-2024-20272, reported by software development consultant Maxim Suslov, affects Cisco Unity Connection software releases 12.5 and 14 - but not version 15.
Customers are urged to update to the fixed versions as there are no workarounds.
Vulnerabilities in Cisco solutions are often leveraged by attackers.
The following month, the company fixed an exploited zero-day vulnerability that affected networking devices running Cisco IOS XE software.


This Cyber News was published on www.helpnetsecurity.com. Publication date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:13:04 +0000


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