Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Avaya IP Office Admin Lite and USB Creator had a local privilege escalation flaw. Someone who already has a low-privileged account on a system running vulnerable versions could potentially gain higher privileges, putting confidentiality, integrity, and availability at risk.
Executive priority
Treat as a high-priority workstation and admin-tool remediation item, especially where Avaya administration software is installed on shared or broadly accessible systems. Business urgency is lower than internet-facing remote code execution, but local compromise could lead to full system control.
Technical view
CVE-2021-25657 is a CWE-269 privilege management issue affecting Admin Lite and USB Creator 11.1 Feature Pack 2 Service Pack 1 and earlier. CVSS 3.1 is 7.8: local access, low complexity, low privileges, no user interaction, and high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely on administrator workstations or systems where Avaya IP Office Admin Lite or USB Creator is installed. The source bundle does not support treating this as a remotely reachable IP Office service vulnerability.
Exploitation context
The record requires local access and low privileges. The bundle marks KEV as false and provides no cited evidence of active exploitation. It also does not provide exploit maturity or public exploitation confirmation.
Researcher notes
The description gives the useful affected range; the bundled affected product metadata lists IP Office with version "0", which is incomplete. Do not infer appliance-level or remote exposure without vendor advisory evidence. Patch details are not included in the provided bundle.
Mitigation direction
- Identify installations of Avaya IP Office Admin Lite and USB Creator.
- Prioritize versions 11.1 Feature Pack 2 Service Pack 1 and earlier.
- Check Avaya advisory guidance for fixed versions or vendor mitigations.
- Restrict local access to systems running affected tools until remediated.
- Remove vulnerable utilities where they are no longer operationally required.
Validation and detection
- Inventory endpoints for Admin Lite and USB Creator installations.
- Confirm installed version and service pack against the affected range.
- Review local administrator membership on systems hosting these utilities.
- Check vendor advisory 101083319 for current remediation details.
- Document whether compensating controls limit local user access.
Public sources used
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CWE-269: Authorization and privilege behavior lookup
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H1.85.9Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.8HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/101083319CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/2022/MNDT-2022-0037/MNDT-2022-0037.mdCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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CWE details
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Improper Privilege Management
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