Mitel has released a security advisory to address a critical severity vulnerability in Mitel MiCollab. MiCollab is a cloud-based platform that integrates chat, voice, video, and SMS messaging for teams.
The vulnerability, which has no CVE identifier at time of publish, is a “path traversal” vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 9.8. Successful exploitation could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorised access to provisioning information and perform unauthorised administrative actions on the MiCollab server.
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