{"id":239517,"date":"2026-06-24T06:18:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cisco-unified-cm-flaw-exploited-after-poc-reveals-file-write-path-to-root"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:18:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:18:59","slug":"cisco-unified-cm-flaw-exploited-after-poc-reveals-file-write-path-to-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cisco-unified-cm-flaw-exploited-after-poc-reveals-file-write-path-to-root","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Unified CM Flaw Exploited After PoC Reveals File-Write Path to Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cisco-unified-cm-flaw-exploited-after-poc-reveals-file-write-path-to-root2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME).<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, tracked as <b><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/cisco-patches-cve-2026-20230-in-unified.html\">CVE-2026\u201320230<\/a><\/b> (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks through an affected device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device,\u201d Cisco said in an advisory released earlier this month. \u201cA successful exploit could allow the attacker to write files to the underlying operating system that could be used later to elevate to root.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026\u201320230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}