High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Sep 7, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-37145

Description

A command-injection vulnerability in an authenticated Telnet connection in Poly (formerly Polycom) CX5500 and CX5100 1.3.5 leads an attacker to Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution capability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

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Affected products

Polycom/CX5500/CX5100description
Polopoly/Polopolyllm-fuzzy
Range: 1.3.5
Polycom/Cx5500 Firmware
cpe:2.3:o:poly:cx5500_firmware:1.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Polycom/Cx5100 Firmware
cpe:2.3:o:poly:cx5100_firmware:1.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

support.polycom.com/content/dam/polycom-support/global/documentation/security-bulletin-cx5100-cx5500-authenticated-v1-0.pdfnvdVendor Advisory
support.polycom.com/content/support.htmlnvdVendor Advisory

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