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CVE-2007-5639

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.1)—

The Nortel UNIStim IP Softphone 2050, IP Phone 1140E, and other Nortel IP Phone, Mobile Voice Client, and WLAN Handsets products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang) via a flood of Mute and UnMute messages that have a spoofed source IP address for the Signaling Server.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Nortel — IP Softphone 2050Nortel — Mobile Voice Client 2050

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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