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Cisco Unified Communications Manager SQL Injection Vulnerability

Security researchers have found that Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM / CallManager) is vulnerable to an SQL-injection.
Threat ID:
CC-1334
Category:
Threat Severity:
Medium
Threat Vector:
Exploit
Published:
20 April 2017 12:00 AM
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Summary

Security researchers have found that Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM / CallManager) is vulnerable to an SQL-injection.

Threat details

The attack would compromise the application, allowing data to be accessed and modified as well as exploiting hidden vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Researchers have reported that only authenticated attackers can exploit the vulnerability in Cisco Unified CM. If exploited, an authenticated, remote attacker could execute arbitrary SQL queries.

A successful SQL injection exploit can lead to the unauthorised exposure of sensitive data from the database, the execution of unauthorised administrative operations on the database and even modification or deletion of the database. Therefore, an attack would impact on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the system.

The reported vulnerability occurs due to a lack of input validation on HTTP requests which encompass user-provided input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending constructed HTTP requests that contain malicious SQL statements. The vulnerability can also allow a remote attacker to check if certain data exists in the application.

CVE identifier:

CVE-2017-3886

Affected Products:

Known affected releases:

  • 1.0(1.10000.10)
  • 11.5(1.10000.6)

Known Fixed Releases:

  • 12.0(0.98000.619)
  • 12.0(0.98000.485)
  • 12.0(0.98000.212)
  • 11.5(1.13035.1)
  • 11.0(1.23900.5)
  • 11.0(1.23900.2)
  • 11.0(1.23067.1)
  • 10.5(2.15900.2)

Remediation steps

Type Step
  • Ensure any identified vulnerable Cisco Unified CM/ CallManager product versions are included in patch deployment schedules.
  • Users are encouraged to patch all relevant programs as quickly as possible.

CVE Vulnerabilities

Status

CVE-2017-3886

Last edited: 17 February 2020 11:29 am