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CVE-2007-5639
The Nortel UNIStim IP Softphone 2050, IP Phone 1140E, and other Nortel IP Phone, Mobile Voice Client, and WLAN Handsets products allow…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Nortel UNIStim IP Softphone 2050, IP Phone 1140E, and other Nortel IP Phone, Mobile Voice Client, and WLAN Handsets products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang) via a flood of Mute and UnMute messages that have a spoofed source IP address for the Signaling Server.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://www.csnc.ch/static/advisory/csnc/nortel_IP_phone_flooding_denial_of_service_v1.0.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 3273 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20071018 Nortel IP Phone Flooding Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 26122 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- nortel-ipphone-spoof-dos(37253) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&id=654715 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-5611 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-5639)Record last updated .