VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4659

critical
Published 2012-01-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Cisco TelePresence Software before TE 4.1.1 on the Cisco IP Video Phone E20 has a default password for the root account after an upgrade to TE 4.1.0, which makes it easier for remote attackers to modify the configuration via an SSH session, aka Bug ID CSCtw69889, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2555.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_software{"endIncluding":"te4.1.1-cucm"}
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwarete2.2
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwarete2.2.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwarete4.0.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwarete4.1.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwarete4.1.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwaretenc4.0.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwaretenc4.1.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwaretenc4.1.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_e20_softwaretenc4.1.1-cucm

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.