CVE-2021-37145

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-09-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-77

Description

A command-injection vulnerability in an authenticated Telnet connection in Poly (formerly Polycom) CX5500 and CX5100 1.3.5 leads an attacker to Privilege Escalation and Remote Code Execution capability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer

Affected products

Poly Cx5100 Firmware: 1.3.5
Poly Cx5500 Firmware: 1.3.5

References

https://support.polycom.com/content/dam/polycom-support/global/documentation/security-bulletin-cx5100-cx5500-authenticated-v1-0.pdf
https://support.polycom.com/content/support.html
https://support.polycom.com/content/dam/polycom-support/global/documentation/security-bulletin-cx5100-cx5500-authenticated-v1-0.pdf
https://support.polycom.com/content/support.html

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