CVE-2025-20165

Cisco BroadWorks SIP Denial of Service Vulnerability

Severity
High 7.5
CVSS 3.1
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.008
54.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Jan 22, 2025
Assigned by cisco

Description

A vulnerability in the SIP processing subsystem of Cisco BroadWorks could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to halt the processing of incoming SIP requests, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper memory handling for certain SIP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high number of SIP requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust the memory that was allocated to the Cisco BroadWorks Network Servers that handle SIP traffic. If no memory is available, the Network Servers can no longer process incoming requests, resulting in a DoS condition that requires manual intervention to recover.

Weakness: CWE-789

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Cisco Cisco BroadWorks Other Products cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (1)
  • Cisco · Cisco BroadWorks