# Cisco Unified Communications Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE record · `CVE-2025-20112`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-20112`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.1 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** cisco
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-268](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/268.html)
- **Tags:** [Privilege escalation](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/privilege-escalation.md)
- **Technologies:** [Cisco Emergency Responder](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-emergency-responder.md) · [Cisco Finesse](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-finesse.md) · [Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-prime-collaboration-deployment.md) · [Cisco SocialMiner](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-socialminer.md) · [Cisco Unified Communications Manager](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-unified-communications-manager.md) · [Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-unified-communications-manager-im-and-presence-service.md) · [Cisco Unified Contact Center Express](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-unified-contact-center-express.md) · [Cisco Unified Intelligence Center](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-unified-intelligence-center.md) · [Cisco Unity Connection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-unity-connection.md) · [Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/cisco-virtualized-voice-browser.md)
- **Published:** 21 May 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: cisco) at 21 May 2025, 16:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Emergency Responder.
  - affected: `12.5(1a)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU3`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU4`
  - affected: `14`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU5`
  - affected: `14SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU6`
  - affected: `14SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU7`
  - and 10 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Finesse.
  - affected: `11.0(1)ES_Rollback`
  - affected: `10.5(1)ES4`
  - affected: `11.6(1)ES3`
  - affected: `11.0(1)ES2`
  - affected: `12.0(1)ES2`
  - affected: `10.5(1)ES3`
  - affected: `11.0(1)`
  - affected: `11.6(1)FIPS`
  - affected: `11.6(1)ES4`
  - affected: `11.0(1)ES3`
  - affected: `10.5(1)ES6`
  - affected: `11.0(1)ES7`
  - and 72 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment.
  - affected: `11.5(1)`
  - affected: `11.0(1a)`
  - affected: `11.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `10.5(3)`
  - affected: `12.6(1)`
  - affected: `11.0(1)`
  - affected: `11.6(2)`
  - affected: `12.1(1)`
  - affected: `12.0(1a)`
  - affected: `11.5(3)`
  - affected: `10.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - and 11 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco SocialMiner.
  - affected: `12.5(1)ES01`
  - affected: `10.5(1)`
  - affected: `11.6(1)`
  - affected: `10.6(1)`
  - affected: `12.0(1)ES04`
  - affected: `10.6(2)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - affected: `11.6(2)`
  - affected: `12.0(1)`
  - affected: `12.0(1)ES02`
  - affected: `11.0(1)`
  - affected: `11.5(1)`
  - and 5 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU3`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU4`
  - affected: `14`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU5`
  - affected: `14SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU6`
  - affected: `14SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU7`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU7a`
  - and 9 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Service.
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU3`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU4`
  - affected: `14`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU5`
  - affected: `14SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU6`
  - affected: `14SU2`
  - affected: `14SU2a`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU7`
  - and 6 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Unified Contact Center Express.
  - affected: `10.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `10.6(1)`
  - affected: `11.6(1)`
  - affected: `10.6(1)SU1`
  - affected: `10.6(1)SU3`
  - affected: `11.6(2)`
  - affected: `12.0(1)`
  - affected: `10.0(1)SU1`
  - affected: `11.0(1)SU1`
  - affected: `11.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `10.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - and 49 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Unified Intelligence Center.
  - affected: `11.6(1)`
  - affected: `10.5(1)`
  - affected: `11.0(1)`
  - affected: `11.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.0(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - affected: `11.0(2)`
  - affected: `12.6(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU`
  - affected: `12.6(1)_ET`
  - affected: `12.6(1)_ES05_ET`
  - affected: `11.0(3)`
  - and 10 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Unity Connection.
  - affected: `12.5(1)`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU3`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU4`
  - affected: `14`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU5`
  - affected: `14SU1`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU6`
  - affected: `14SU2`
  - affected: `12.5(1)SU7`
  - affected: `14SU3`
  - and 7 more
  - Other versions: unknown
- Vendor: Cisco. Product: Cisco Virtualized Voice Browser.
  - affected: `11.0(1)`
  - affected: `11.6(1)_ES84`
  - affected: `11.5(1)_ES54`
  - affected: `11.5(1)_ES27`
  - affected: `11.5(1)`
  - affected: `11.5(1)ES36`
  - affected: `12.0(1)_ES01`
  - affected: `11.6(1)_ES85`
  - affected: `12.5(1)_ES05`
  - affected: `11.5(1)_ES32`
  - affected: `11.6(1)_ES83`
  - affected: `11.5(1)_ES29`
  - and 81 more
  - Other versions: unknown

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.1 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (cisco)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0014, the 3rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 21 May 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-20112](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-20112)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-20112](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20112)

### References from the CNA

- <https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-cucm-kkhZbHR5>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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