Marc Bollhalder
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CVE-2025-47188: Mitel Phone Unauthenticated RCE

While on an internal attack simulation engagement, a customer asked us: “Is an attacker able to listen in on our meeting room conversations?”. Motivated by this question, we scanned their internal network and discovered Mitel VoIP phone web management interfaces.

While playing around with the login functionality of the management interface, we accidentally rediscovered CVE-2020-13617 on our own - and since the phone firmware was old enough, it allowed us to leak memory in the failed login response. While we didn’t have enough time to analyze the phone during this engagement, my interest in the phone and its firmware did not vanish.

As part of the R&D team at InfoGuard Labs, I decided to take a closer look at the phone as a research project. This lead to the discovery of two new vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2025-47188: Unauthenticated command injection vulnerability
  • CVE-2025-47187: Unauthenticated .wav file upload vulnerability

These vulnerabilities are present in Mitel 6800 Series, 6900 Series and 6900w Series SIP Phones, including the 6970 Conference Unit with firmware version R6.4.0.SP4 and earlier. Mitel has published the MISA-2025-0004 security advisory informing about these vulnerabilities, the affected devices as well as remediation measures.

Disclosure Timeline#

DateEvent
21.03.2025Vulnerability report submitted
25.03.2025Vulnerability report acknowledged
02.04.2025Vulnerability confirmed
08.04.2025Further clarification request
13.04.2025Response to clarification request
07.05.2025Mitel advisory published

I would like to thank the Mitel PSIRT team in their fast and professional response to our vulnerability report.

Technical details#

We will update this blog post with more technical details after the 07.06.2025, to give Mitel partners and customers time to update to the latest firmware version.

CVE-2025-47188: Mitel Phone Unauthenticated RCE
https://labs.infoguard.ch/posts/cve-2025-47188_mitel_phone_unauthenticated_rce/
Author
Marc Bollhalder
Published at
2025-05-12