CVE-2007-1542 describes an unspecified denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960 models running firmware older than POS8-6-0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this DoS by sending a specially crafted SIP INVITE request with a malformed Remote-Party-ID sipURI field. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of medium severity, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity leading to partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:7940_router:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:cisco:7960_router:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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