Unified Communications Domain ManagerApplication · Cisco
CVE-2013-3418
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCisco Unified Communications Domain Manager does not properly allocate memory for GET and POST requests, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process crash) via crafted requests to the management interface, aka Bug ID CSCud22922.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceCisco Unified Communications Domain Manager fails to properly allocate memory when handling GET and POST requests. Remote authenticated attackers can send specially crafted requests to the management interface, causing excessive memory consumption that leads to process crash and denial of service.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Unified Communications Domain ManagerApplication
all versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- Single
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Complete
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager is installedCheck for the presence of the Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager application or service on the system. Look for processes named 'ucdm' or services related to 'Cisco UCDM' in the system process list or installed programs.Affected if The product is installed on the system
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Verify management interface accessibilityDetermine if the web-based management interface is exposed. Check if port 8443, 443, or the default UCDM management ports are listening on network interfaces accessible from outside localhost. Use 'netstat -an | grep -E "(8443|443)"' or similar port scanning commands.Affected if The management interface ports are listening on non-loopback interfaces
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Confirm remote authentication is enabledCheck the UCDM configuration for remote administrator accounts. Review authentication settings in the UCDM admin console or configuration files to determine if remote users can authenticate to the management interface.Affected if Remote authentication is configured and functional
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Check for exposed management interface on networkFrom an external network perspective, attempt to reach the management interface URL (typically /ucdm or /admin paths) or verify through firewall rules that the management ports are accessible from outside the trusted network segment.Affected if The management interface is reachable from untrusted networks
If Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager is installed with its management interface accessible remotely, the environment is affected since all versions are vulnerable.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply the vendor patch from Cisco for CSCud22922. If no patch is available, consider network segmentation to limit access to the management interface to authorized administrators only.
Fix this in Unified Communications Domain Manager
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2013-3418 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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