Researchers Disclose Rooting Backdoor in Mitel IP Phones for Businesses

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 13^th 2022 at 10:55

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two medium-security flaws in Mitel 6800/6900 desk phones that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to gain root privileges on the devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-29854 and CVE-2022-29855 (CVSS score: 6.8), the access control issues were discovered by German penetration testing firm SySS, following which patches were shipped in May