CVE-2005-2242 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco CallManager versions 3.2 and earlier, specific 3.3 and 4.0 releases, and 4.1 before 4.1(3)SR1. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending crafted packets to the CTI Manager or CallManager services, leading to memory consumption and system restarts. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no authentication, resulting in partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog and lacking Metasploit or Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-25967) exists, indicating public exploit code. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | n/aCNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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