{"id":"CVE-2025-20275","aliases":["EUVD-2025-16888","GHSA-wh83-8497-cgfq"],"status":"published","title":"Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Editor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","description":"A vulnerability in the file opening process of Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (Unified CCX) Editor could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected device.\u0026nbsp;\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to insecure deserialization of Java objects by the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading an authenticated, local user to open a crafted .aef file. 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