# CVE-2017-12214: Privilege escalation in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal

> An authenticated remote attacker can gain administrator privileges in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal via a crafted HTTP request due to improper input validation.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Sep 2017
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-mgq9-pr3p-2gmg

## What is CVE-2017-12214?

CVE-2017-12214 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal, published on 21 Sep 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the Operations, Administration, Maintenance, and Provisioning (OAMP) credential reset functionality for Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to the OAMP and sending a crafted HTTP request. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain administrator privileges. The attacker must successfully authenticate to the system to exploit this vulnerability. This vulnerability affects Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP) running software release 10.5, 11.0, or 11.5. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCve92752.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), CWE-264

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12214?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-12214?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-12214 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2017-12214 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12214 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal

- [CVE-2013-1221](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-1221/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-2053](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2053/): Privilege escalation in n/a (critical 9.0)
- [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-2017-12214 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-12214 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal, published on 21 Sep 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12214 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal. 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-2017-12214/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-12214/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12214
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12214
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12214

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