CVE-2015-4325

Cisco TelePresence VCS Expressway X8.5.2 - Local Privilege Escalation via Firestarter

Title source: llm

Description

The process-management implementation in Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) Expressway X8.5.2 allows local users to gain privileges by terminating a firestarter.py supervised process and then triggering the restart of a process by the root account, aka Bug ID CSCuv12272.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_cisco

http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151006-vcs

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033751

Scores

EPSS 0.0039

EPSS Percentile 31.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (1)

cisco/telepresence_video_communication_server_software x8.5.2

Published Oct 12, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026