CVE-2025-20112 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-20112

Cisco Unified Communications Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

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
Vulnerable Versions:
12.5(1a), 12.5(1)SU1, 12.5(1), 12.5(1)SU2, 12.5(1)SU3, 12.5(1)SU4, 14, 12.5(1)SU5, 14SU1, 12.5(1)SU6, 14SU2, 12.5(1)SU7, 14SU3, 12.5(1)SU8, 12.5(1)SU8a, 12.5(1)SU8b, 14SU3a, 15, 15SU1, 15SU1a, 14SU4, 12.5(1)SU9, 11.0(1)ES_Rollback, 10.5(1)ES4, 11.6(1)ES3, 11.0(1)ES2, 12.0(1)ES2, 10.5(1)ES3, 11.0(1), 11.6(1)FIPS, 11.6(1)ES4, 11.0(1)ES3, 10.5(1)ES6, 11.0(1)ES7, 11.5(1)ES4, 10.5(1)ES8, 11.5(1), 11.6(1), 10.5(1)ES10, 11.6(1)ES2, 11.6(1)ES, 11.0(1)ES6, 11.0(1)ES4, 12.0(1), 11.6(1)ES7, 10.5(1)ES7, 11.6(1)ES8, 11.5(1)ES1, 11.6(1)ES1, 11.5(1)ES5, 11.0(1)ES1, 10.5(1), 11.6(1)ES6, 10.5(1)ES2, 12.0(1)ES1, 11.0(1)ES5, 10.5(1)ES5, 11.5(1)ES3, 11.5(1)ES2, 10.5(1)ES9, 11.6(1)ES5, 11.6(1)ES9, 11.5(1)ES6, 10.5(1)ES1, 12.0(1)ES3, 11.6(1)ES10, 12.5(1)ES1, 12.5(1)ES2, 12.0(1)ES4, 12.5(1)ES3, 12.0(1)ES5, 12.5(1)ES4, 12.0(1)ES6, 12.5(1)ES5, 12.5(1)ES6, 12.0(1)ES7, 12.6(1), 12.5(1)ES7, 11.6(1)ES11, 12.6(1)ES1, 12.0(1)ES8, 12.5(1)ES8, 12.6(1)ES2, 12.6(1)ES3, 12.6(1)ES4, 12.6(1)ES5, 12.5(2), 12.5(1)_SU, 12.5(1)SU, 12.6(1)ES6, 12.5(1)SU ES1, 12.6(1)ES7, 12.6(1)ES7_ET, 12.6(2), 12.6(1)ES8, 12.6(1)ES9, 12.6(2)ES1, 12.6(1)ES10, 12.5(1)SU ES2, 12.6(1)ES11, 12.6(2)ES2, 12.6(2)ES3, 12.5(1)SU ES3, 12.6(2)ES4, 12.6(2)ES6, 11.0(1a), 11.5(1)SU1, 10.5(3), 11.6(2), 12.1(1), 12.0(1a), 11.5(3), 11.5(2), 10.5(2), 10.5(3)SU1, 12.5(1)ES01, 10.6(1), 12.0(1)ES04, 10.6(2), 12.0(1)ES02, 12.0(1)ES03, 12.5(1)SU7a, 14SU4a, 14SU2a, 10.5(1)SU1, 10.6(1)SU1, 10.6(1)SU3, 10.0(1)SU1, 11.0(1)SU1, 12.5(1)_SU03_ES01, 12.5(1)_SU03_ES02, 12.5(1)_SU02_ES03, 12.5(1)_SU02_ES04, 12.5(1)_SU02_ES02, 12.5(1)_SU01_ES02, 12.5(1)_SU01_ES03, 12.5(1)_SU02_ES01, 11.6(2)ES07, 11.6(2)ES08, 12.5(1)_SU01_ES01, 12.5(1)ES02, 12.5(1)ES03, 11.6(2)ES06, 12.0(1)ES01, 11.6(2)ES05, 11.6(2)ES04, 11.6(2)ES03, 11.6(2)ES02, 11.6(2)ES01, 10.6(1)SU3ES03, 11.0(1)SU1ES03, 10.6(1)SU3ES01, 10.5(1)SU1ES10, 10.0(1)SU1ES04, 11.5(1)SU1ES03, 11.6(1)ES02, 11.5(1)ES01, 9.0(2)SU3ES04, 10.6(1)SU2, 10.6(1)SU2ES04, 11.6(1)ES01, 10.6(1)SU3ES02, 11.5(1)SU1ES02, 11.5(1)SU1ES01, 8.5(1)SU4ES09, 8.5(1), 11.0(1)SU1ES02, 12.5(1)_SU03_ES03, 12.5(1)_SU03_ES04, 12.5(1)_SU03_ES05, 12.5(1)_SU03_ES06, 11.0(2), 12.6(1)_ET, 12.6(1)_ES05_ET, 11.0(3), 12.6(2)_504_Issue_ET, 12.6.1_ExcelIssue_ET, 12.6(2)_Permalink_ET, 12.6.2_CSCwk19536_ET, 12.6.2_CSCwm96922_ET, 12.6.2_Amq_OOS_ET, 12.5(2)ET_CSCwi79933, 12.6(2)_ET, 12.6.2_CSCwn48501_ET, 11.6(1)_ES84, 11.5(1)_ES54, 11.5(1)_ES27, 11.5(1)ES36, 12.0(1)_ES01, 11.6(1)_ES85, 12.5(1)_ES05, 11.5(1)_ES32, 11.6(1)_ES83, 11.5(1)_ES29, 12.0(1)_ES06, 12.0(1)_ES07, 11.6(1)_ES80, 12.0(1)_ES05, 11.5(1)_ES36, 11.5(1)_ES53, 12.5(1)_ES08, 11.5(1)ES43, 12.0(1)_ES03, 11.6(1)_ES86, 12.0(1)_ES04, 11.5(1)ES27, 12.5(1)_ES03, 11.6(1)_ES88, 12.5(1)_ES06, 11.6(1)_ES82, 11.5(1)ES29, 12.5(1)_ES04, 12.5(1)_ES07, 11.6(1)_ES87, 11.6(1)_ES81, 11.6(1)_ES22, 11.5(1)_ES43, 11.5(1)ES32, 12.0(1)_ES02, 12.5(1)_ES02, 12.5(1)_ES09, 12.6(1)_ES01, 12.0(1)_ES08, 12.5(1)_ES10, 12.6(1)_ES02, 12.5(1)_ES11, 12.5(1)_ES12, 12.6(1)_ES03, 12.5(1)_ES13, 12.5(1)_ES14, 12.6(1)_ES04, 12.6(1)_ES05, 12.5(1)_ES15, 12.6(1)_ES06, 12.5(1)_ES16, 12.5(1)_SU_ES01, 12.6(1)_ES07, 12.5(1)_ES17, 12.6(1)_ES08, 12.6(1)_ES09, 12.6(1)_ES10, 12.5(1)_SU_ES02, 12.6(2)_ES01, 12.6(2)_ET01, 12.5(2)_ET, 12.6(2)_ES02, 12.6(2)_ET_Streaming, 12.6(2)ET_Transcribe, 12.6(2)_ES03, 12.6(2)ET_NuanceMix, 12.6(2)ET_FileUpload, 12.6(2)_ET02, 12.6(2)_ES04, 12.6.2ET_RTPfallback, 12.6.2ET_CSCwf55306, 12.6.2_ET_CSCwj36712, 12.5.2 ET-CSCwj33374, 12.5(1) SU ET, 12.6(2)ET_CSCwj87296, 12.6(2)_ES05, 12.5.2_ET_CSCvz27014, 12.6.2-ET, 12.6(2)ET_CSCwk83135, 12.6.2_ET_CX_ALAW, 12.6.2-ET01-SSL, 12.6(2)_ES06

Timeline

Official Publish: May 21st, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-268

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.