The default installation of Cisco voice products, when running the IBM Director Agent on IBM servers before OS 2000.2.6, does not require au
The default installation of Cisco voice products, when running the IBM Director Agent on IBM servers before OS 2000.2.6, does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to gain administrator privileges by connecting to TCP port 14247.
- Published
- Jan 21, 2004
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 3.8% · 90th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-287
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Action score
41
Plan
Add it to your regular patch cycle.
- CVSS
- 40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 3.8%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | emergency responder | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:emergency_responder |
| cisco | ip call center express enhanced | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ip_call_center_express_enhanced |
| cisco | ip call center express standard | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ip_call_center_express_standard |
| cisco | ip interactive voice response | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ip_interactive_voice_response |
| cisco | personal assistant | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:personal_assistant |
| cisco | call manager | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:call_manager |
| cisco | internet service node | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:internet_service_node |
| cisco | conference connection | cpe:2.3:o:cisco:conference_connection |
| ibm | director agent | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:director_agent |
| ibm | mcs-7815-1000 | cpe:2.3:h:ibm:mcs-7815-1000 |
| ibm | mcs-7815i-2.0 | cpe:2.3:h:ibm:mcs-7815i-2.0 |
| ibm | mcs-7835i-2.4 | cpe:2.3:h:ibm:mcs-7835i-2.4 |
and 5 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco call manager1.0
- cisco call manager2.0
- cisco call manager3.0
- cisco call manager3.1
- cisco call manager3.1(2)
- cisco call manager3.1(3a)
- cisco call manager3.2
- cisco call manager3.3
- cisco call manager3.3(3)
- cisco call manager4.0
- cisco conference connection1.1(1)
- cisco conference connection1.2
- cisco emergency responder1.1
- cisco internet service nodeall versions
- cisco ip call center express enhanced3.0
- cisco ip call center express standard3.0
- cisco ip interactive voice response3.0
- cisco personal assistant1.3(1)
- cisco personal assistant1.3(2)
- cisco personal assistant1.3(3)
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Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- C · data can be read
- Integrity
- C · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- C · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- C
- Integrity impact
- C
- Availability impact
- C
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-287 · Improper AuthenticationCVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
nvd-primary
Root cause
Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-287 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
// Route added later skips the middlewareapp.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);Fixed
const admin = express.Router();admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
admin.post("/config", updateConfig);app.use("/admin", admin);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Authentication AbuseCAPEC-114Medium
- Authentication BypassCAPEC-115Medium
- Identity SpoofingCAPEC-151likelihood: Medium · Medium
- Fake the Source of DataCAPEC-194Medium
- Exploiting Trust in ClientCAPEC-22likelihood: High · High
- Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive DataCAPEC-57likelihood: Medium · Very High
- Session HijackingCAPEC-593likelihood: High · Very High
- Token ImpersonationCAPEC-633Medium
ATT&CK techniques
Noroxi analysis
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References
- secunia.com/advisories/10696
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-066.shtml
- www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040121-voice.shtml
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/602734
- www.osvdb.org/3692
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/9468
- www.securitytracker.com/id?1008814
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14900
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.