Cisco patched a critical vulnerability in Meeting Management

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Date: 26/01/2025

Cisco released updates to fix a critical (CVSS score: 9.9) vulnerability in Meeting Management. The bug enables an unprivileged remote authenticated attacker to gain administrative privileges.

The vulnerability ID is CVE-2025-20156; it’s described as a privilege escalation flaw in the Cisco Meeting Management REST API.

“This vulnerability exists because proper authorization is not enforced upon REST API users, – Cisco reports. – An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending API requests to a specific endpoint. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain administrator-level control over edge nodes that are managed by Cisco Meeting Management.”

CVE-2025-20156 affects the following product versions regardless of configuration:

  • Cisco Meeting Management v. 3.9 (fixed in version 3.9.1); and 
  • Cisco Meeting Management v. 3.8 and earlier (it’s recommended to upgrade to a fixed version).

Cisco Meeting Management v. 3.10 isn’t vulnerable.

Earlier this week, Cisco released a patch to fix a BroadWorks DoS vulnerability caused by improper memory handling for certain Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) requests. The vulnerability ID is CVE-2025-20165 (CVSS score: 7.5), and it was fixed in version RI.2024.11.

“An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high number of SIP requests to an affected system, – Cisco reports. – A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust the memory that was allocated to the Cisco BroadWorks Network Servers that handle SIP traffic. If no memory is available, the Network Servers can no longer process incoming requests, resulting in a DoS condition that requires manual intervention to recover.”

The third vulnerability fixed by Cisco this week is CVE-2025-20128 (CVSS Score: 5.3). This is an integer overflow error that affects the Object Linking and Embedding 2 (OLE2) decryption procedure in ClamAV. This bug can also result in a denial of service (DoS). Cisco emphasized that a PoC exploit is already available for this vulnerability.

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