THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-16005
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2019-16005

Collaboration Meeting Rooms vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Video Mesh could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to the web-based management interface with administrative privileges and supplying crafted requests to the application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system with root privileges on a targeted node.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Collaboration Meeting Rooms
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-77 — Command Injection
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2020-01-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-16005

  • Confirm whether Cisco Collaboration Meeting Rooms is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-16005.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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