CVE-2025-20335

Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Video Phone 8875 with SIP Firmware Information Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

Severity
Medium 5.3
CVSS 3.1
Remote · no auth what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.004
26.7th percentile
Discovered by
Vendor
Vendor-published field
Published
Sep 3, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the directory permissions of Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, Cisco IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Cisco Video Phone 8875 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to a lack of proper authentication controls. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform arbitrary file writes to specific directories in the underlying operating system. Note: To exploit this vulnerability, Web Access must be enabled on the phone. Web Access is disabled by default.

Weakness: CWE-284

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco SIP Software Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software

Vendor advisory

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Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Video Phone 8875 with SIP Software Vulnerabilities

Cisco’s rating: Medium (advisory CVSS 5.3) · Published Sep 3, 2025

Bug IDs: CSCwn51677 , CSCwn51679 , CSCwn52909 , CSCwn52910 , CSCwn52911 , CSCwn52913 , CSCwn52919 , CSCwn52920 , CSCwn52921 , CSCwn52922 , CSCwn55709 , CSCwn55710 , CSCwn55712 , CSCwn55714 , CSCwn55725 , CSCwn55726 , CSCwn55727 , CSCwn55728

The vendor’s rating applies to the whole advisory and can differ from this CVE’s own CVSS severity. Where this comes from

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