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CVE-2017-12259

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-12259 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Cisco Small Business SPA51x Series IP Phones running firmware 7.6.2SR1 or earlier, caused by improper handling of malformed Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to render an affected device unresponsive, requiring a manual restart. While there is no known public exploit code or active exploitation, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:small_business_ip_phone_firmware:*:sr1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20171018-sip
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101488
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039615
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry