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CVE-2005-1802

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-1802 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Nortel VPN Router (Contivity) products, including various models like the 1010, 1050, and 5000 series. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the device by sending a specially crafted IPsec IKE packet with a malformed ISAKMP header. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1000_vpn_switchCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:1000_vpn_switch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1500_vpn_switchCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:1500_vpn_switch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1600_secure_ip_services_gatewayCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:1600_secure_ip_services_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2000_vpn_switchCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:2000_vpn_switch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2500_vpn_switchCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:nortel:contivity:2500_vpn_switch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0159 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securitytracker.com / id
nta-monitor.com / news/vpn-flaws/nortel/vpn-router-dos
securityfocus.com / archive/1/399423
securityfocus.com / bid/13792
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