CVE-2017-12249

CRITICAL

Cisco Meeting Server - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN) server included with Cisco Meeting Server (CMS) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain unauthenticated or unauthorized access to components of or sensitive information in an affected system. The vulnerability is due to an incorrect default configuration of the TURN server, which could expose internal interfaces and ports on the external interface of an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a TURN server to perform an unauthorized connection to a Call Bridge, a Web Bridge, or a database cluster in an affected system, depending on the deployment model and CMS services in use. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain unauthenticated access to a Call Bridge or database cluster in an affected system or gain unauthorized access to sensitive meeting information in an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for the TURN server of the affected system. This vulnerability affects Cisco Meeting Server (CMS) deployments that are running a CMS Software release prior to Release 2.0.16, 2.1.11, or 2.2.6. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvf51127.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100821
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039357

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0313
EPSS Percentile 86.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-16 CWE-668
Status published
Products (19)
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.0
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.1
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.2
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.3
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.4
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.5
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.6
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.7
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.8
cisco/meeting_server 2.1.9
... and 9 more
Published Sep 13, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026