CVE-2006-0179: Cisco IP Phone 7940

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cisco IP Phone 7940 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a large amount of TCP SYN packets (syn flood) to arbitrary ports, as demonstrated to port 80.

Affected products

• Cisco IP Phone 7940: any version

Published 2006-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.