CVE-2026-20045
Unified Communications Products Code Injection in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. CISA confirmed attackers exploit it and added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 21 January 2026.
- Product
- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
- Added to CISA's catalog
- Federal fix-by date
- Ransomware
- No known use in ransomware campaigns
- Vendor advisories
- Sources
- CISA’s catalog, NVD entry
CISA’s description.
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Cisco Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME), Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P), Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Webex Calling Dedicated Instance contain a code injection vulnerability that could allow the attacker to obtain user-level access to the underlying operating system and then elevate privileges to root.
More from Cisco this year.
- CVE-2026-76418 Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference, added
- CVE-2026-76519 Relative Path Traversal, added
- CVE-2026-76504 Hex Encoding, added
- CVE-2026-76460 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs, added
- CVE-2026-76461 SQL Injection, added
- CVE-2026-20079 Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel, added
- CVE-2026-20349 Heap Inspection, added
- CVE-2026-20316 Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password, added
Every flaw CISA confirmed exploited in the last 30 days is on the exploit watch. This is not security advice. Check the vendor’s advisory before acting. From CISA’s catalog of 3 November 2026.