A vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco Emergency Responder that could allow for arbitrary code execution on a targeted host. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to log in to the affected system using the root account and execute arbitrary commands. Cisco Emergency Responder is used to enhance the existing emergency 9-1-1 functionality offered by Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

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