CVE-2005-4794

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Cisco IP Phones 7902/7905/7912, ATA 186/188, Unity Express, ACNS, and Subscriber Edge Services Manager (SESM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or instability) via a compressed DNS packet with a label length byte with an incorrect offset.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-12-31 CVE Published
2006-05-02 CVE Reserved
2024-08-08 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (12)

URL	Tag	Source
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014043	Vdb Entry
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014044	Vdb Entry
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014045	Vdb Entry
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014046	Vdb Entry
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015975	Vdb Entry
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/al-20050524-00433.html	X_refsource_misc
http://www.niscc.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20050524-00432.pdf?lang=en	X_refsource_misc
http://www.osvdb.org/19003	Vdb Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13729	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20712	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/15472	2017-07-20
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sn-20050524-dns.shtml	2017-07-20

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Application And Content Networking Software Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Application And Content Networking Software"				*		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Ata Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ata"				186 Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ata" and version "186"		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Ata Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ata"				188 Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ata" and version "188"		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Subscriber Edge Services Manager Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Subscriber Edge Services Manager"				*		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Ip Phone 7902 Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ip Phone 7902"				*		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Ip Phone 7905 Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ip Phone 7905"				*		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Ip Phone 7912 Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Ip Phone 7912"				*		-		Affected
Cisco Search vendor "Cisco"		Unity Express Search vendor "Cisco" for product "Unity Express"				*		-		Affected