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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-20112

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: Cisco

Product: Cisco Emergency Responder, Cisco Finesse, Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment, Cisco SocialMiner, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service, Cisco Unified Contact Center Express, Cisco Unified Intelligence Center, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.05% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20112
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5

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