CVE-2019-12327 — Hardcoded credentials in the Akuvox R50P VoIP phone 50

Hardcoded credentials in the Akuvox R50P VoIP phone 50.0.6.156 allow an attacker to get access to the device via telnet. The telnet service is running on port 2323; it cannot be turned off and the credentials cannot be changed.

01What is this vulnerability?

Hardcoded credentials in the Akuvox R50P VoIP phone 50.0.6.156 allow an attacker to get access to the device via telnet. The telnet service is running on port 2323; it cannot be turned off and the credentials cannot be changed.

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: 2019-07-22T17:30:45.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:17:39.562Z

09References

• www.sit.fraunhofer.de — https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_Akuvox_R50P.pdf