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CVE-2005-2181
Cisco 7940/7960 Voice over IP (VoIP) phones do not properly check the Call-ID, branch, and tag values in a NOTIFY message to verify a…
High7.5EPSS 1.2%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Cisco 7940/7960 Voice over IP (VoIP) phones do not properly check the Call-ID, branch, and tag values in a NOTIFY message to verify a subscription, which allows remote attackers to spoof messages such as the "Messages waiting" message.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 1014406 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20050706 VoIP-Phones: Weakness in proccessing SIP-Notify-Messages (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://pentest.tele-consulting.com/advisories/05_07_06_voip-phones.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- sip-notify-message-spoof(21260) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .