CVE-2008-4543 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service via session exhaustion in Cisco Unity when anonymous authentication is enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-4543?
CVE-2008-4543 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 13 Oct 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4543?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Unity.
How do I fix CVE-2008-4543?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4543 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-4543 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4543 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-62cp-8pc2-pfp9.