Vigil@nce - Cisco Unified Communications Manager: denial of service via Authentication
May 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can send several parallel authentication queries to
Cisco Unified Communications Manager, in order to trigger a denial
of service.
– Impacted products: Cisco CUCM
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 15/05/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cisco Unified Communications Manager product allows users to
authenticate.
However, this operation consumes too many resources.
An attacker can therefore send several parallel authentication
queries to Cisco Unified Communications Manager, in order to
trigger a denial of service.
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