CVE-2025-20165 — Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Cisco Broadworks Network Server
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.1%
top 13.26%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 22
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 C…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6