Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Improper API Authorization Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass, Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-285 and CWE-552.
Summary
A vulnerability in the API subsystem of Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (Unified CCX) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to change the availability state of any agent. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authorization enforcement on an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by authenticating to an affected system with valid agent credentials and performing a specific API call with crafted input. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to change the availability state of an agent, potentially causing a denial of service condition.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-3267
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9vch-84p9-292x
References
More Cisco Unified Contact Center Express vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-19919 Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2020-02838 Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2018-00362 Cross-site scripting in Cisco Unified Contact Center Express unknown CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2024-13188 Deserialization of untrusted data in Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2025-14653 Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Editor Authentication Bypass Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2017-09109 Improper authentication in Cisco Voice Operating System CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2020-3267 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-3267 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9vch-84p9-292x · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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