CVE-2003-0556 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Polycom MGC 25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of "user" requests to the control port 5003, as demonstrated using the blast TCP stress tester.

Published: 2003-07-15

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:h:polycom:mgc-100::::::::
	cpe:2.3:h:polycom:mgc-25:5.51.21:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:polycom:mgc-25:5.51.211:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:h:polycom:mgc-50::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2003-0550	Polycom MGC 25 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of "user" requests to the control port 5003, as demonstrated using the blast TCP stress tester.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00655.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/006494.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105804648003163&w=2

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Polycom Mgc-100 Mgc-25 Mgc-50

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-07-15T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:58:11.020Z

Reserved: 2003-07-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-0556

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-08-18T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2003-0556

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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