CVE-2005-2181 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cisco 7940/7960 Voice over IP (VoIP) phones do not properly check the Call-ID, branch, and tag values in a NOTIFY message to verify a subscription, which allows remote attackers to spoof messages such as the "Messages waiting" message.

Published: 2005-07-10

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_phone_7940_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:cisco:ip_phone_7940:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ip_phone_7960_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:h:cisco:ip_phone_7960:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00363.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112067698624686&w=2
http://pentest.tele-consulting.com/advisories/05_07_06_voip-phones.txt
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Jul/1014406.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21260

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Ip Phone 7940 Ip Phone 7940 Firmware Ip Phone 7960 Ip Phone 7960 Firmware

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-07-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:15:37.672Z

Reserved: 2005-07-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2181

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-07-11T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2181

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-347

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