The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to…

Description

The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

13.6% · top 3.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• cisco-ipphone-synflood-dos(24117) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 22469 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• ADV-2006-0202 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20060113 Response to Cisco IP Phone 7940 DoS Exploit posted on milw0rm.com (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
• 1015488 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 18479 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/cisco_ip7940_dos.pl (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1411 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• 16200 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-0179](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-0179.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-0179)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 16:25 UTC.