# CVE-2008-2053: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Remote authenticated administrators can create, modify, or delete superuser accounts in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal, leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 May 2008
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j378-rp7m-2f6g

## What is CVE-2008-2053?

CVE-2008-2053 is a critical vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 May 2008. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP) 4.0.x before 4.0(2)_ES14, 4.1.x before 4.1(1)_ES11, and 7.x before 7.0(1) allows remote authenticated users with administrator role privileges to create, modify, or delete a superuser account.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2053?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal.

## How do I fix CVE-2008-2053?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-2053 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2008-2053 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2013-1221](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1221/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2017-12214](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-12214/): Privilege escalation in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2018-0139](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-0139/): Denial of service in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2018-0086](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-0086/): Denial of service in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2013-1220](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1220/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-2053 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2008-2053 is a critical vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 May 2008. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2053 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2053/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2053/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2053
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2053
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2053

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2053/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.