If you own Cisco Telepresence products, you have some work to do. Cisco quietly released four security advisories that describe the vulnerabilities in its TelePresence line. The vulnerabilities mean outsiders can hack into your videoconferencing system. The problems affect the TelePresence Recording Server, TelePresenceMultiPoint Switch, TelePresence Manager, and all TelePresence Endpoints. In most cases, the advisories direct users to patches that can correct the problem.

Advisory #1

Cisco TelePresence Recording Server contains the following vulnerabilities:
• Cisco TelePresence Malformed IP Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability
• Cisco TelePresence Web Interface Command Injection
• Cisco TelePresence Cisco Discovery Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploitation of the Cisco TelePresence Malformed IP Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to create a denial of service condition, preventing the product from responding to new connection requests and potentially causing some services and processes to crash.

Exploitation of the Cisco TelePresence Web Interface Command Injection may allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with elevated privileges.

Exploitation of the Cisco TelePresence Cisco Discovery Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability may allow allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Cisco has released updated software that resolves the command and code execution vulnerabilities.  There are currently no plans to resolve the malformed IP packets denial of service vulnerability, as this product is no longer being actively supported.

There are no workarounds that mitigate these vulnerabilities.

Customers should contact their Cisco Sales Representative to determine the Business Unit responsible for their Cisco TelePresence Recording Server.

Advisory #2

Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch contains the following vulnerabilities:
• Cisco TelePresence Malformed IP Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability
• Cisco TelePresence Cisco Discovery Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploitation of the Cisco TelePresence Malformed IP Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create a denial of service (DoS) condition, causing the product to become unresponsive to new connection requests and

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