HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-2874

Unified Presence Server vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The TimesTenD process in Cisco Unified Presence 1.x, 6.x before 6.0(6), and 7.x before 7.0(4) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a large number of TCP connections to ports 16200 and 22794, aka Bug ID CSCsy17662.
Affected vendor
Cisco
Affected product
Unified Presence Server
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2009-10-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-2874

  • Confirm whether Cisco Unified Presence Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-2874.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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