# CVE-2014-0686: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Local attackers can gain elevated privileges on Cisco Unified Communications Manager due to incorrect file permissions.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.0 (`AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Feb 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7v4h-325x-vg9c

## What is CVE-2014-0686?

CVE-2014-0686 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, published on 4 Feb 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (aka Unified CM) 9.1 (2.10000.28) and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging incorrect file permissions, aka Bug IDs CSCul24917 and CSCul24908.

Weakness: CWE-264

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0686?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Unified Communications Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2014-0686?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-0686 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2014-0686 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0686 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Communications Manager

- [CVE-2026-20230](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20230/): Cisco Unified Communications Manager Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (high 8.6, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-20045](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20045/): Cisco Unified Communications Products Code Injection (high 8.2, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2025-20309](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-20309/): Cisco Unified Communications Manager Static SSH Credentials Vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2011-1643](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-1643/): Information disclosure in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-20253](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-20253/): Deserialization in Cisco Packaged Contact Center Enterprise (critical 9.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-0686 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2014-0686 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, published on 4 Feb 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-0686 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Unified Communications Manager. 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-2014-0686/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-0686/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0686
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0686
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-0686

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