# CVE-2021-25657: Avaya IP Office Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

> A local user can escalate privileges in Avaya IP Office Admin Lite and USB Creator, requiring administrators to upgrade affected software.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Sep 2022
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-23q4-mv34-qff2

## What is CVE-2021-25657?

CVE-2021-25657 is a high-severity vulnerability in Avaya IP Office, published on 2 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Avaya IP Office Admin Lite and USB Creator that may potentially allow a local user to escalate privileges. This issue affects Admin Lite and USB Creator 11.1 Feature Pack 2 Service Pack 1 and earlier versions.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-25657?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Avaya Ip Office.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-25657?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-25657 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-25657 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-25657 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Avaya IP Office

- [CVE-2024-4196](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4196/): Avaya IP Office Web Control RCE Vulnerability (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-4197](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4197/): Avaya IP Office One-X Portal File Upload Vulnerability (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2017-11309](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-11309/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.6)
- [CVE-2018-15610](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-15610/): Improper access controls in IP Office one-X Portal (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2018-15614](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-15614/): IP Office one-X Portal XSS (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-25657 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-25657 is a high-severity vulnerability in Avaya IP Office, published on 2 Sep 2022. 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-2021-25657 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Avaya IP Office. 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-2021-25657/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25657/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25657
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25657
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-25657

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25657/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.