CVE-2008-1740 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Presence Engine (PE) service in Cisco Unified Presence before 6.0(1) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and service interruption) via an unspecified "stress test," aka Bug ID CSCsh20972.

Published: 2008-05-16

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 1.9% 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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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_presence::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_presence:6.0_1:::::::*

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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-2008-1740	The Presence Engine (PE) service in Cisco Unified Presence before 6.0(1) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and service interruption) via an unspecified "stress test," aka Bug ID CSCsh20972.

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 Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01918.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/30240
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020023
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080995682.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29220
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1534
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42412

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Unified Presence

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2008-05-16T06:54:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:32:01.128Z

Reserved: 2008-04-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-1740

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-05-16T12:54:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-1740

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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