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CVE-2005-4794

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4794 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting various Cisco products, including IP Phones (7902/7905/7912), ATA 186/188, Unity Express, ACNS, and SESM. Attackers can exploit this by sending a malformed, compressed DNS packet containing an incorrect offset in the label length byte, leading to device crashes or instability. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:application_and_content_networking_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
186CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ata:186:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
188CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:ata:188:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:subscriber_edge_services_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:cisco:ip_phone_7902:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0239 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

secunia.com / advisories/15472
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/20712
cisco.com / warp/public/707/cisco-sn-20050524-dns.shtml
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/al-20050524-00433.html
niscc.gov.uk / niscc/docs/re-20050524-00432.pdf
osvdb.org / 19003
securityfocus.com / bid/13729