Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

published 2019-10-16 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-6859

cvss: 4.4; version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits: 0; none known

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint (CE) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to write files to the /root directory of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper permission assignment. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in as the remotesupport user and writing files to the /root directory of an affected device.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: last yr. (2024-11-21)

Exploit prediction

0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.0	4.4	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	4.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	6.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Cisco Cisco TelePresence TC Software

Classification

Weakness

CWE-275 Permission Issues
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

tools.cisco.com /security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20191016-tele-ce-filewrite
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-15962
NVD CVE-2019-15962

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