cve-2021-34716
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-08-18 19:40
Modified
2024-09-17 03:32
Severity
6.7 (Medium) - cvssV3_1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Summary
Cisco Expressway Series and TelePresence Video Communication Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
References
SourceURLTags
ykramarz@cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ewrce-QPynNCjhPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
VendorProduct
CiscoCisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) Expressway
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