CVE-2005-2181

HIGH

Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960 Firmware - Message Spoofing via Improper Cryptographic Signature Verification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Jul/1014406.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21260
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112067698624686&w=2
Broken Link, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://pentest.tele-consulting.com/advisories/05_07_06_voip-phones.txt

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0119
EPSS Percentile 63.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-347
Status published
Products (2)
cisco/ip_phone_7940_firmware
cisco/ip_phone_7960_firmware
Published Jul 11, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026