9.9
CRITICAL
CVE-2025-20156
Cisco Meeting Management Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description

A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Meeting Management could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to elevate privileges to administrator on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because proper authorization is not enforced upon REST API users. 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.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 22, 2025, 5:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Jan. 29, 2025, 4:15 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

6.0

Exploitability Score :

3.1
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-20156 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

No affected product recoded yet

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2025-20156 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • TheCyberThrone
Cisco fixes Twin ISE Vulnerabilities

Cisco has recently addressed two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE), identified as CVE-2025-20124 and CVE-2025-20125. These vulnerabilities pose significant security risks, ... Read more

Published Date: Feb 06, 2025 (2 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Help Net Security
Week in review: 48k Fortinet firewalls open to attack, attackers “vishing” orgs via Microsoft Teams

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack Despite last week’s confirmation of an ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 26, 2025 (3 weeks, 6 days ago)
  • Dark Reading
Cisco: Critical Meeting Management Bug Requires Urgent Patch

Source: Kristoffer Tripplaar via Alamy Stock PhotoNEWS BRIEFCisco has released a patch for a critical vulnerability found in its Cisco Meeting Management feature that could allow a remote, authenticat ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 24, 2025 (4 weeks ago)
  • The Register
Patch now: Cisco fixes critical 9.9-rated, make-me-admin bug in Meeting Management

Cisco has pushed a patch for a critical, 9.9-rated vulnerability in its Meeting Management tool that could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to escalate to administrator on af ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 23, 2025 (4 weeks, 1 day ago)
  • Help Net Security
Cisco fixes ClamAV vulnerability with available PoC and critical Meeting Management flaw

Cisco has released patches for a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Meeting Management (CVE-2025-20156) and a heap-based buffer overflow flaw (CVE-2025-20128) that, when triggered, could t ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 23, 2025 (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • The Cyber Express
Cisco Warns of Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Meeting Management Platform

Cisco has issued a security advisory regarding a critical privilege escalation vulnerability found in Cisco Meeting Management. The vulnerability is tied to the REST API component of the platform, and ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 23, 2025 (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • The Hacker News
Cisco Fixes Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Meeting Management (CVSS 9.9)

Network Security / Vulnerability Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Meeting Management that could permit a remote, authenticated attacker to gain adminis ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 23, 2025 (4 weeks, 2 days ago)
  • BleepingComputer
Cisco warns of denial of service flaw with PoC exploit code

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability is caused by a ... Read more

Published Date: Jan 22, 2025 (4 weeks, 2 days ago)

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2025-20156 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Jan. 29, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Removed CWE CWE-276
  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    Jan. 22, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description A vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Meeting Management could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to elevate privileges to administrator on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because proper authorization is not enforced upon REST API users. 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-274
    Added Reference https://blog.clamav.net/2025/01/clamav-142-and-108-security-patch.html
    Added Reference https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-ole2-H549rphA
    Added Reference https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cmm-privesc-uy2Vf8pc
  • CVE Modified by 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    Jan. 22, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-276
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-20156 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2025-20156 weaknesses.

CVSS31 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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