Cisco Unity up to 4.0 Account Remote Code Execution

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A vulnerability was found in Cisco Unity up to 4.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Account. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco Unity 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x, when integrated with Microsoft Exchange, has several hard coded usernames and passwords, which allows remote attackers to gain unauthorized access and change configuration settings or read outgoing or incoming e-mail messages.

The bug was discovered 01/01/2001. The weakness was disclosed 12/15/2004 with Cisco (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1322 since 01/06/2005. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1444 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 4.0(5) eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at cisco.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (18489). The entry 1053 is pretty similar.

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  • end of life (old version)

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Remote Code Execution
CWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Unity 4.0(5)
Patch: cisco.com

Timelineinfo

01/01/2001 🔍
12/15/2004 +1444 days 🔍
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12/16/2004 +1 days 🔍
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12/23/2004 +6 days 🔍
01/06/2005 +14 days 🔍
06/30/2019 +5288 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Researcher: http://www.cisco.com
Organization: Cisco
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1322 (🔍)
X-Force: 18489 - Cisco Unity integrated with Microsoft Exchange has default user accounts, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 11954 - Cisco Unity With Exchange Default User Accounts and Passwords Vulnerability
Secunia: 13483 - Cisco Unity Default Usernames and Passwords, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 12408 - Cisco Unity With Microsoft Exchange Multiple Default Accounts

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 12/23/2004 13:15
Updated: 06/30/2019 16:14
Changes: 12/23/2004 13:15 (77), 06/30/2019 16:14 (1)
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