Cisco Unified Presence (CUP) before 8.6(3) and Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (aka Jabber XCP) before 5.3 allow remote attackers
Cisco Unified Presence (CUP) before 8.6(3) and Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (aka Jabber XCP) before 5.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted XMPP stream header, aka Bug ID CSCtu32832.
- Published
- Sep 12, 2012
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 2.8% · 86th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-119
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Report tools
Action score
32
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 2.8%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cisco | unified presence | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_presence |
| cisco | jabber extensible communications platform | cpe:2.3:a:cisco:jabber_extensible_communications_platform |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cisco jabber extensible communications platformup to 5.2 inclusive
- cisco unified presenceup to 8.6\(2\) inclusive
- cisco unified presence1.0
- cisco unified presence6.0
- cisco unified presence6.0_1
- cisco unified presence6.0_2
- cisco unified presence6.0(1)
- cisco unified presence6.0(2)
- cisco unified presence6.0(3)
- cisco unified presence6.0(4)
- cisco unified presence6.0(5)
- cisco unified presence6.0(6)
- cisco unified presence6.0(7)
- cisco unified presence7.0
- cisco unified presence7.0(1)
- cisco unified presence7.0(2)
- cisco unified presence7.0(3)
- cisco unified presence7.0(4)
- cisco unified presence7.0(5)
- cisco unified presence7.0(6)
Same product
cisco: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2008-1158The Presence Engine (PE) service in Cisco Unified Presence before 6.0(1) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and32Monitor
- CVE-2008-1740The Presence Engine (PE) service in Cisco Unified Presence before 6.0(1) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and32Monitor
- CVE-2008-1741The SIP Proxy (SIPD) service in Cisco Unified Presence before 6.0(3) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and ser32Monitor
- CVE-2011-3288Cisco Unified Presence before 8.5(4) does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a de31Monitor
- CVE-2013-1197The XML parser in the server in Cisco Unified Presence (CUP) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (jabberd daemon 27Monitor
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
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- C · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- C
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
nvd-primary
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)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment VariablesCAPEC-10likelihood: High · High
- Overflow BuffersCAPEC-100likelihood: High · Very High
- Buffer ManipulationCAPEC-123likelihood: High · Very High
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer OverflowCAPEC-14likelihood: Medium · High
- Filter Failure through Buffer OverflowCAPEC-24likelihood: High · High
- MIME ConversionCAPEC-42likelihood: High · High
- Overflow Binary Resource FileCAPEC-44likelihood: High · Very High
- Buffer Overflow via Symbolic LinksCAPEC-45likelihood: High · High
ATT&CK techniques
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References
- osvdb.org/85421
- secunia.com/advisories/50562
- tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20120912-cupxcp
- www.securitytracker.com/id?1027520
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78457
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.