High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Oct 5, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-15430

Description

A vulnerability in the administrative web interface of Cisco Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute code with user-level privileges on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of the content of upgrade packages. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a malicious archive to the Upgrade page of the administrative web interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute code with user-level privileges on the underlying operating system.

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Affected products

Cisco Systems, Inc./Expressway Seriesllm-create
Cisco Systems, Inc./Telepresence Video Communication Serverllm-fuzzy2 versions
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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: n/a

Patches

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References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1041784nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-express-vcs-rcenvdVendor Advisory

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