A vulnerability has been identified in Cisco Unified IP Phone, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable device. This issue is due to a design error where a hard coded default user account (used for debugging purposes) with a default password is embedded into the device's firmware, which could be exploited by attackers to access the Command Line Interface (CLI) of a vulnerable IP phone (remotely via the SSH service or via the console serial port) and execute certain commands leading to the crash or complete compromise of an affected device.
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2007-02-21 : Initial release
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