CVE-2019-12622: Cisco Roomos

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in Cisco RoomOS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to write files to the underlying filesystem with root privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient permission restrictions on a specific process. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by logging in to an affected device with remote support credentials and initiating the specific process on the device and sending crafted data to that process. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to write files to the underlying file system with root privileges.

Affected products

• Cisco Roomos: up to and including 9.7.2; after 9.7.3, before 9.8.0 (fixed in 9.8.0)
• Cisco Telepresence Codec c40 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Cisco Telepresence Codec c60 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Cisco Telepresence Codec c90 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2019-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.