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Openwave and Cisco BroadWorks: Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-111793, CVE-2026-20320)

Threat actors are actively exploiting two information disclosure vulnerabilities in Openwave Webtop Media Transcoder and Cisco BroadWorks to harvest sensitive configuration, credential, and subscriber data from telecommunications providers.

CVE search metadata

CVE search record: CVE-2026-111793. KEV: no. Product: BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Application Server (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Profile Server (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Xtended Services Platform (< RI.2026.07). Brief: Openwave and Cisco BroadWorks: Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-111793, CVE-2026-20320). Brief link: https://feed.craftedsignal.io/briefs/2026-11-openwave-cisco-exploitation/

CVE search record: CVE-2026-20320. Severity: high. CVSS: 7.5. EPSS: 0.39%. KEV: no. Product: BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Application Server (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Profile Server (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Xtended Services Platform (< RI.2026.07). Brief: Openwave and Cisco BroadWorks: Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-111793, CVE-2026-20320). Brief link: https://feed.craftedsignal.io/briefs/2026-11-openwave-cisco-exploitation/

Triage facts

Revision 1
Applicability
BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform (< RI.2026.07), BroadWorks Application Server (< RI.2026.07) +2
Evidence
Unknown
Severity
Critical
Action
Immediate escalation
Sources
4 public sources
Freshness
Revision 1Nov 11, 09:23 UTC
Vulnerabilities
2 CVEs
Source quality
B2Very likely

CISA has added two vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-111793 and CVE-2026-20320, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports of active exploitation. CVE-2026-111793 affects Openwave Webtop Media Transcoder and allows an authenticated user to bypass file-type restrictions. CVE-2026-20320 is an out-of-band blind XML external entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in the Cisco BroadWorks OCI-P service, which can be exploited remotely without authentication to read sensitive configuration files.

Impact

Observed impacts include asset enumeration, credential theft, and harvesting of subscriber billing and device records. At least 13 organizations utilizing a targeted European telecommunications provider have been affected by the campaign.

Recommendation

  • Patch Cisco BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform, Application Server, Profile Server, and Xtended Services Platform to version RI.2026.07 or later immediately.
  • Patch Openwave Webtop Media Transcoder to version 1.1.22.0 or later.
  • Prioritize patching by the CISA-mandated deadline of November 24, 2026.
  • Review network access logs for the Cisco OCI-P service for anomalous XML-based requests or unusual outbound traffic indicative of XXE data exfiltration.

Immediate actions

Patch all instances of Cisco BroadWorks to RI.2026.07 and Openwave Webtop Media Transcoder to 1.1.22.0.

IT Operations 24h

Threat Hunt

Hunt for anomalous XML POST requests to OCI-P services (port 8000/tcp or similar).

T1190 high high confidence hunt now

Data: Web server access logs, Firewall logs

Mitigations

Upgrade affected Cisco and Openwave components to the specified fixed versions.

immediate IT Operations

CVE-2026-111793, CVE-2026-20320