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FKIE_CVE-2015-4240

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2015-07-08 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:26

Severity

Summary

Cisco IP Communicator 8.6(4) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via an unspecified URL in a GET request, aka Bug ID CSCuu37656.

References

URL	Tags
psirt@cisco.com	http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=39623	Vendor Advisory
psirt@cisco.com	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032807	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=39623	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032807	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	cisco	ip_communicator	8.6\(4\)

JSON

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CVE-2015-4240 (GCVE-0-2015-4240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-08 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:11

Summary

Cisco IP Communicator 8.6(4) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via an unspecified URL in a GET request, aka Bug ID CSCuu37656.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

cisco CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 66/100 over 443 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032807	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCO

Date Public

2015-07-07 00:00

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