VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2007-1542

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 9.47%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 9.5%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960 running firmware before POS8-6-0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the Remote-Party-ID sipURI field in a SIP INVITE request. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

CVSS 2.0: 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS: 9.47% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits: 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 20 March 2007
CISA KEV: Not listed
Affected: cisco/7940 router · cisco/7960 router
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 9.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-ID	Title	Type	Published	Verified
EDB-3526 source ↗	Cisco Phone 7940/7960 - 'SIP INVITE' Remote Denial of Servicehardware · MADYNES	dos	20 March 2007	yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.