Meeting impersonation via empty DTLS certificate
Published Aug 6, 2025 · Updated Aug 6, 2025
Authentication bypass in Cisco Webex Meetings allows attackers on an adjacent network to join a meeting as a targeted user. The Webex media server accepted an empty certificate during the DTLS handshake and associated the resulting connection with the target's active meeting join. Exploitation requires monitoring and interrupting a concurrent client join within a narrow timing window; a demonstrated attack received about 30 seconds of meeting audio.
Summary
What happened
Authentication bypass in Cisco Webex Meetings allows attackers on an adjacent network to join a meeting as a targeted user. The Webex media server accepted an empty certificate during the DTLS handshake and associated the resulting connection with the target's active meeting join. Exploitation requires monitoring and interrupting a concurrent client join within a narrow timing window; a demonstrated attack received about 30 seconds of meeting audio.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-20215
- Published
- Aug 6, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2025
- Vendor
- ClamAV
- Product
- Webex Meetings
- Classifications
- CWE-295, T1123, T1557
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 6, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Empty-certificate Webex media interception proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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