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CVE-2022-20660

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-20660 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting several Cisco IP Phone models, stemming from unencrypted storage of confidential information. An unauthenticated, physical attacker could exploit this by directly accessing flash memory chips, potentially compromising sensitive data. While the CVSS score is 4.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating physical access is required, the potential impact is high confidentiality loss. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 14.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_conference_phone_7832_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 14.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_conference_phone_8832_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 14.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_phone_7811_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 14.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_phone_7821_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 14.1\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_phone_7841_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.6MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 1,532 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/165567/Cisco-IP-Phone-Cleartext-Password-Storage.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2022/Jan/34
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ip-phone-info-disc-fRdJfOxA
Vendor Advisory