Cisco Webex bug allowed anyone to join a password-protected meeting

Cisco Webex bug allowed anyone to join a password-protected meeting

Patched vuln was 'in active use', firm reveals


Cisco has confessed to a vulnerability in its Webex Meetings Suite sites and Webex Meetings Online sites that allowed an "unauthenticated" attendee sitting on a workstation far, far away to join a "password-protected meeting without providing the meeting password".


According to the security advisory, which was rated as "High": "The vulnerability is due to unintended meeting information exposure in a specific meeting join flow for mobile applications."


This is where the user goes to the meeting link in a browser – for which the meeting ID is needed. The browser then launches the Webex app, and it is within this flow that the vulnerability could be exploited.


They wouldn't have snuck in unnoticed, however.


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