VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2173

high
Published 2014-05-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

Cisco TelePresence TC Software 4.x and 5.x and TE Software 4.x and 6.0 do not properly restrict access to the serial port, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified commands, aka Bug ID CSCub67692.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscotelepresence_te_software4.1.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_te_software4.1.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_te_software4.1.2
cisco ciscotelepresence_te_software4.1.3
cisco ciscotelepresence_te_software6.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.0.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.0.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.0.4
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.1.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.1.2
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.2.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.2.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.2.2
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.2.3
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software4.2.4
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.0.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.0.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.0.2
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.0
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.1
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.2
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.3
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.4
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.5
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.6
cisco ciscotelepresence_tc_software5.1.7

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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