CVE-2022-20791 Cisco Unified Communications Products Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability
Authenticated attackers can read arbitrary files on the underlying OS of Cisco Unified Communications Manager products via crafted API commands.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-20791?
CVE-2022-20791 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, published on 6 Jul 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in the database user privileges of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), and Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient file permission restrictions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted command from the API to the application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the underlying operating system of the affected device. The attacker would need valid user credentials to exploit this vulnerability.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20791?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Im and Presence Service.
How do I fix CVE-2022-20791?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20791 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2022-20791 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20791 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- CVE-2026-20230 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
- CVE-2026-20045 Cisco Unified Communications Products Code Injection
- CVE-2025-20309 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Static SSH Credentials Vulnerability
- CVE-2011-1643 Information disclosure in n/a
- CVE-2024-20253 Deserialization in Cisco Packaged Contact Center Enterprise
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q64f-4f9p-qmph.