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Severity
Medium
Title
Unauthenticated Alarm Application Access
Description

The Cisco Unified Communications Manager provides several resources via its web servers. Some of these are intended for interaction from a handset whereas others are provided for integration and interaction with other components.

 

Due to no authentication being required to access an alarm application, and attacker could activate the application to gather information on the system or to consume resources as the test alarms are being generated and received.

Details
Category
Unauthorized Access
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Unified Communications Manager 5.x
Released
2008-04-01
updated
2008-04-01
Response
Attempting to address the issue
Recommendations

To completely address the issue requires a patch from Cisco. In the short term it is recommended that a VoIP aware IPS product, such as VoIPguard, with signatures to detect attempts to exploit this issue, be implemented to prevent it from being exploited. Implementing best practices can limit the exposure of this issue.  Therefore it is recommended that only authorized systems and users be allowed to connect to web resources.

 

Cisco is actively investigating the reported Tomcat issues and will provide a further update when more information is available.

 

Cisco customers with a valid support agreement may wish to speak with their support contact in order to obtain further vendor details.

Tracking Id
VSRCS-2008-003
 

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Severity Legend

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Low

A low severity issue falls into one of two categories.  Firstly, there are those that are not directly exploitable and affect a single IP client, a small subset of the deployment, or are quite innocuous taken by themselves. In other words, they provide information which either involves only a small number (or single) client and that information requires considerable other information or effort to be useful to an attacker.  The other category of low severity issues includes those that are best practices which are not intended to directly mitigate an exploitable risk but to increase overall security robustness and demonstrate due diligence.

Medium

A medium severity issue is typically an issue which can lead to further exploitation or provides short-lived effect on a minimal number of clients.  It may not be immediately exploitable but provides sufficient information or access to move an attack closer to fruition.  Alternately it may provide unauthorized access not directly related to the VoIP portion of the network.

High

A high severity issue can be exploited to compromise one or more nodes within the deployment but may require authentication, especially when exploiting multiple systems simultaneously. In addition, it may be possible to protect against untrusted exploitation of the issue by deploying traditional security tools.

Critical

A critical severity issue can be exploited by an untrusted individual to compromise the entire deployment under review.  There are no security or protective mechanisms in place that will mediate exploitation of this vulnerability by an untrusted individual.

Vendor Response Legend

Patch available
Workaround proposed
Attempting to address the issue
No vendor response
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