Cisco TelePresence Manager 1.2.x through 1.6.x allows remote attackers to perform unspecified actions and consequently execute arbitrary cod

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• cisco telepresence manager1.2.0.0
• cisco telepresence manager1.3.2
• cisco telepresence manager1.4.0
• cisco telepresence manager1.5.1
• cisco telepresence manager1.5.2
• cisco telepresence manager1.6.0
• cisco telepresence manager1.6.2
• cisco telepresence manager1.6.3
• cisco telepresence manager1.6.5

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2011-0380Cisco TelePresence Manager 1.2.x through 1.6.x allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and invoke arbitrary methods via a malformed
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const host = req.body.host;2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

1const host = req.body.host;2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.