CVE-2008-4543 (GCVE-0-2008-4543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-13 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17
VLAI
Summary
Cisco Unity 4.x before 4.2(1)ES161, 5.x before 5.0(1)ES53, and 7.x before 7.0(2)ES8, when using anonymous authentication (aka native Unity authentication), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session exhaustion) via a large number of connections.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 27/100 over 2378 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021013 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31642 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2771 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_secu… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO
http://www.voipshield.com/research-details.php?id=128 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2008-10-08 00:00
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