Meeting ServerApplication · Cisco
CVE-2018-0371
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 · uneditedA vulnerability in the Web Admin Interface of Cisco Meeting Server could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of incoming HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to the Web Admin Interface of an affected Cisco Meeting Server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to restart the system, terminating all ongoing calls and resulting in a DoS condition on the affected product. This vulnerability affects the following releases of Cisco Meeting Server: Acano X-Series, Cisco Meeting Server 1000, Cisco Meeting Server 2000. Cisco Bug IDs: CSCvi48624.
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 confidenceThe Cisco Meeting Server Web Admin Interface lacks proper validation of incoming HTTP requests, allowing an authenticated remote attacker to send crafted requests that cause an uncontrolled system restart. This DoS condition terminates all active calls and disrupts conferencing services. The vulnerability affects Acano X-Series, Cisco Meeting Server 1000, and 2000 platforms.
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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
Meeting ServerApplication
= 2.2.5CVSS 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
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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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Identify installed Cisco Meeting Server versionAccess the Web Admin Interface and navigate to Status > System, or use the 'xmppctl status' command via SSH to retrieve the software version number.Affected if The installed version is exactly 2.2.5
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Confirm Web Admin Interface is enabledCheck if the Web Admin Interface service is running by accessing the admin portal or reviewing the server configuration via SSH with 'webadmin status' or reviewing /opt/var/run/status files if accessible.Affected if The Web Admin Interface is enabled and accessible
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Verify network exposure to the Web Admin InterfaceReview firewall rules, ACLs, or network segmentation to determine if the Web Admin Interface (ports 443/8443) is reachable from untrusted networks or the public internet.Affected if The Web Admin Interface is accessible from networks beyond trusted internal segments
You are affected if your Cisco Meeting Server runs exactly version 2.2.5 and the Web Admin Interface is enabled and reachable, regardless of whether attackers have valid credentials.
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 (refer to CSCvi48624) to remediate this vulnerability. Until patched, restrict access to the Web Admin Interface using network ACLs or VPN to limit exposure to authenticated attackers.
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Scoped from the published advisory
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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-2018-0371 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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