CVE-2013-5528

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Published 2013-10-11 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40887 webapps hardware text · 2 KB

justpentest · 2016-12-07

Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7/8/9 - Directory Traversal

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administrative Web Interface Directory traversal CVE-2013-5528
# Date: 7th December 2016
# Exploit Author: justpentest
# Vendor Homepage: https://software.cisco.com/
# Software Link: https://software.cisco.com/download/navigator.html?mdfid=268439621
# Version: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administrative Web Interface unpatched version of 7.x, 8.x or 9.x software
# Contact: transform2secure@gmail.com
# CVE : CVE-2013-5528


1) Description: 
Directory traversal vulnerability exists in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administrative Web Interface CVE-2013-5528.
The vulnerability is due to a failure to properly sanitize user-supplied input passed to a specific function. 
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a series of directory traversal characters after authentication, allowing the attacker to designate a file outside the restricted directory to be returned. 
An exploit could allow the attacker to obtain the contents of any file that is readable by the Apache Tomcat service account.

2) Exploit:
http://justpentest.com/ccmadmin/bulkvivewfilecontents.do?filetype=samplefile&fileName=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

3) Fixed version:
Cisco has fixed the vulnerability in 9.1.2, 10.5.2 and 11.5.x.

For more details visit http://justpentest.blogspot.in/2016/12/lfi-and-xss-on-cisco-unified-CM-CVE-2013-5528.html

4) References:
 https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/Cisco-SA-20131011-CVE-2013-5528 
https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCui78815

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
cisco	unified_communications_manager

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.