CVE-2025-20309: Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected device using the root account, which has default, static credentials that cannot be changed or deleted. This vulnerability is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that are reserved for use during development. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the account to log in to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to the affected system and execute arbitrary commands as the root user.

Affected products

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager: version 15.0.1.13010-1 only; version 15.0.1.13011-1 only; version 15.0.1.13012-1 only; version 15.0.1.13013-1 only; version 15.0.1.13014-1 only; version 15.0.1.13015-1 only; …

Published 2025-07-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.