Cisco Unified Videoconferencing (UVC) System 3545, 5110, 5115, and 5230; Unified Videoconferencing 3527 Primary Rate Interface (PRI) Gateway; Unified Videoconferencing 3522 Basic Rate Interfaces (BRI) Gateway; and Unified Videoconferencing 3515 Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) improperly use cookies for web-interface credentials, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a (1) cleartext or (2) base64-encoded cleartext cookie, aka Bug ID CSCti54052.
Weaknesses in this category are related to the design and implementation of data confidentiality and integrity. Frequently these deal with the use of encoding techniques, encryption libraries, and hashing algorithms. The weaknesses in this category could lead to a degradation of the quality data if they are not addressed.