Cisco Meeting Management up to 3.12.0 Certificate Management unrestricted upload

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Cisco Meeting Management up to 3.12.0. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Certificate Management. Performing a manipulation results in unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-20098. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cisco Meeting Management up to 3.12.0. This affects an unknown code of the component Certificate Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A vulnerability in the Certificate Management feature of Cisco Meeting Management could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to upload arbitrary files, execute arbitrary commands, and elevate privileges to root on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation in certain sections of the web-based management interface. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to upload arbitrary files to the affected system. The malicious files could overwrite system files that are processed by the root system account and allow arbitrary command execution with root privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for a user account with at least the role of video operator.

It is possible to read the advisory at sec.cloudapps.cisco.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-20098 since 10/08/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/11/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Cisco

Name

• Meeting Management

Version

• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 3.1.0
• 3.2.0
• 3.4.0
• 3.5.0
• 3.6.0
• 3.6.1
• 3.7.0
• 3.8.0
• 3.9.0
• 3.9.1
• 3.10.0
• 3.11.0
• 3.12.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.cisco.com/

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