What is CVE-2019-14259?

CVE-2019-14259 is a high-severity vulnerability in Polycom Obihai Obi1022, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2019-08-01.

How severe is CVE-2019-14259?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.

RCE in Polycom Obihai Obi1022

CVE-2019-14259

On the Polycom Obihai Obi1022 VoIP phone with firmware 5.1.11, a command injection (missing input validation) issue in the NTP server IP address field for the "Time Service Settings web" interface allows an authenticated remote attacker in the same network to trigger OS commands via shell commands in a POST request.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2019-08-01 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.028 (85.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Polycom Obihai Obi1022
Polycom Obihai Obi1022 Firmware — versions 5.1.11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_Obihai_Obi1002.pdf (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14259?: CVE-2019-14259 is a high-severity vulnerability in Polycom Obihai Obi1022, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 8.0/10. Published 2019-08-01.
How severe is CVE-2019-14259?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.0 out of 10.