Cisco Voice Portal Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA30289
Release Date: 2008-05-22
Popularity: 1,063 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal 4.x
Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal 7.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-2053


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Voice Portal (CVP), which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and can be exploited by a user with administrator privileges to create, modify, or delete a superuser account.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.0(2)_ES14 for the 4.0.x release, 4.1(1)_ES11 for the 4.1.x release, and 7.0(1) for the 7.x release.

Solution:
CVP 4.0.x:
Update to 4.0(2)_ES14:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/36833091037661f49ad8152368c22bbf

CVP 4.1.x:
Update to 4.1(1)_ES11:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/946b57654c80187da8c3cfc0aa02866e

CVP 7.x:
Update to 7.0(1) or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080521-cvp.shtml


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