OS command injection in Cisco Unity Express - CVE-2018-15381
Published: November 7, 2018 / Updated: November 8, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU15768
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15381
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc
Affected software:
Cisco Unity Express
Cisco Unity Express
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insecure deserialization of user-supplied content. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a malicious serialized Java object to the listening Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) service and execute arbitrary shell commands on the device with root privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-15381
Update to version 9.0.6.