Number: AV19-128
Date: 26 June 2019
On 25 June 2019, Cisco published an update to a security advisory that addresses a vulnerability affecting some of their Cisco TelePresence products. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1878, could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent actor to inject arbitrary shell commands or scripts to be executed. The exploit leverages insufficient input validation of received CDP packets.
CCCS further encourages users and administrators to review all the Cisco Security Advisories and Alerts and apply the necessary updates:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing.x
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