CVE-2018-12901 — A vulnerability in the conferencing component of Mitel ST 14

A vulnerability in the conferencing component of Mitel ST 14.2, versions GA29 (19.49.9400.0) and earlier, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack due to insufficient validation for the signin.php page. A successful exploit

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability in the conferencing component of Mitel ST 14.2, versions GA29 (19.49.9400.0) and earlier, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to conduct a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) attack due to insufficient validation for the signin.php page. A successful exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary scripts.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-23T21:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T08:45:02.483Z

09References

• www.mitel.com — https://www.mitel.com/en-ca/support/security-advisories/mitel-product-security-a…