First published: Thu Sep 05 2019(Updated: )
A vulnerability in the Cisco Webex Teams client for Windows could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to improper restrictions on software logging features used by the application on Windows operating systems. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a targeted user to visit a website designed to submit malicious input to the affected application. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the application to modify files and execute arbitrary commands on the system with the privileges of the targeted user.
Credit: ykramarz@cisco.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Cisco Webex Teams | <3.0.12427.0 | |
Microsoft Windows |
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The vulnerability ID for this Cisco Webex Teams vulnerability is CVE-2019-1939.
The severity of CVE-2019-1939 is critical with a CVSS score of 8.8.
CVE-2019-1939 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on an affected system running the Cisco Webex Teams client for Windows.
No, Microsoft Windows is not affected by CVE-2019-1939.
To fix CVE-2019-1939, update the Cisco Webex Teams client for Windows to a version beyond 3.0.12427.0 as recommended by Cisco.