Vulnerability in Cisco Emergency Responder
CVE-2025-20112
A vulnerability in multiple Cisco Unified Communications and Contact Center Solutions products could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to excessive permissions that have been assigned to system commands. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing crafted commands on the underlying operating system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to escape the restricted shell and gain root privileges on the underlying operating system of an affected device. To successfully exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need administrative access to the ESXi hypervisor.
EPSS: 0.001 (3.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Cisco Emergency Responder — versions 12.5(1a), 12.5(1)SU1, 12.5(1)
- Cisco Finesse — versions 11.0(1)ES_Rollback, 10.5(1)ES4, 11.6(1)ES3
- Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment — versions 11.5(1), 11.0(1a), 11.5(1)SU1
- Cisco Socialminer — versions 12.5(1)ES01, 10.5(1), 11.6(1)
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager — versions 12.5(1)SU2, 12.5(1)SU1, 12.5(1)
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager Im And Presence Service — versions 12.5(1), 12.5(1)SU1, 12.5(1)SU2
- Cisco Unified Contact Center Express — versions 10.5(1)SU1, 10.6(1), 11.6(1)
- Cisco Unified Intelligence Center — versions 11.6(1), 10.5(1), 11.0(1)
- Cisco Unity Connection — versions 12.5(1), 12.5(1)SU1, 12.5(1)SU2
- Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser — versions 11.0(1), 11.6(1)_ES84, 11.5(1)_ES54
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-20112?
- CVE-2025-20112 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Emergency Responder, classified under Privilege Chaining. CVSS score: 5.1/10. Published 2025-05-21.
- How severe is CVE-2025-20112?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.1 out of 10.