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CVE-2008-3157

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3157 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Nortel SIP Multimedia PC Client 4.x, MCS5100, and MCS5200. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust system resources by initiating an excessive number of concurrent sessions, leading to service disruption. 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 attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nortel:sip_multimedia_pc_client:4.0:*:mcs5100:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nortel:sip_multimedia_pc_client:4.0:*:mcs5200:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0142 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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/30854
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43364
support.nortel.com / go/main.jsp
securitytracker.com / id
voipshield.com / research-details.php
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1942/references