Cisco Unified Communications Products Denial of Service Vulnerability
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol of Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a kernel panic on an affected system, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to incorrect processing of certain Cisco Discovery Protocol packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by continuously sending certain Cisco Discovery Protocol packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a kernel panic on the system that is running the affected software, resulting in a DoS 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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | Cisco Unified Communications Manager | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager VendorCisco Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-20804
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x87q-gpr2-r7wm
References
More Cisco Unified Communications Manager vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-16259 Cisco Unified Communications Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- 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-2026-16423 Cisco Unified Communications Manager Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2008-00019 Heap-based buffer overflow in the Certificate Trust List (CTL) Provider service… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
- TI-2013-05779 The TFTP service in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (aka CUCM or Unified CM) allows… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3
- TI-2011-02932 Directory traversal vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) 5.x and… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8
Sources
- CVE-2022-20804 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-20804 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x87q-gpr2-r7wm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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