Cisco Webex Meetings Email Content Injection Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
A vulnerability in the account activation feature of Cisco Webex Meetings could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send an account activation email with an activation link that points to an arbitrary domain. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied parameters. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the account activation page of Cisco Webex Meetings. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to send to any recipient an account activation email that contains a tampered activation link, which could direct the user to an attacker-controlled website.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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-2021-40128
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f5wr-xjgr-jhq9
References
More Cisco Webex Meetings vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-01300 Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App and Cisco Webex Productivity Tools Update Service Command Injection Vulnerability CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
- TI-2018-00079 Improper input validation in Cisco WebEx Advanced Recording Format Player CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2018-00224 Improper input validation in Cisco WebEx Advanced Recording Format file players CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2020-02913 Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Meetings Server Token Handling Unauthorized Access Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-02894 Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App for Mac Update Feature Code Execution Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2017-09144 Memory corruption in Cisco WebEx Recording Format and Advanced Recording Format Players CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.6
Sources
- CVE-2021-40128 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-40128 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f5wr-xjgr-jhq9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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