01 Record
CVE-2006-0179
The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 13.57% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-01-11 21:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 16:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-01-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- bf03f613ef13c234bced56fa72836393b188ffc6840444ef3e54248e126b7009
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comcisco-ipphone-synflood-dos(24117)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24117
- www.osvdb.org22469http://www.osvdb.org/22469
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-0202http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0202
- www.cisco.com20060113 Response to Cisco IP Phone 7940 DoS Exploit posted on milw0rm.comhttp://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-response-20060113-ip-phones.shtml
- securitytracker.com1015488http://securitytracker.com/id?1015488
- secunia.com18479http://secunia.com/advisories/18479
- downloads.securityfocus.comhttp://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl
- www.exploit-db.com1411https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1411
- www.securityfocus.com16200http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16200