Cisco Unity up to 7.0 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Unity up to 7.0 and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2008-4543. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Unity up to 7.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Cisco Unity 4.x before 4.2(1)ES161, 5.x before 5.0(1)ES53, and 7.x before 7.0(2)ES8, when using anonymous authentication (aka native Unity authentication), allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session exhaustion) via a large number of connections.

The bug was discovered 10/08/2008. The weakness was presented 10/13/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-4543 since 10/13/2008. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 7.0%282%29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (45743), SecurityFocus (BID 31642†), OSVDB (50075†), Secunia (SA32187†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1021013†). See VDB-44470, VDB-44469, VDB-44467 and VDB-44400 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.7

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 6.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Unity 7.0%282%29

Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2008-4543 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-4543
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-44468
X-Force: 45743
SecurityFocus: 31642 - Cisco Unity 7.0 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 32187
OSVDB: 50075 - Cisco Unity Server session handling denial of service
SecurityTracker: 1021013
Vulnerability Center: 19796 - [cisco-sr-20081008-unity] Cisco Unity Server Using Anonymous Authentication Remote DoS, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-2771

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 08/19/2019 09:47
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (67), 08/19/2019 09:47 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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