Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-3596
CVE-2020-3596
Description
A vulnerability in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) of Cisco Expressway Series and Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of incoming SIP traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of SIP packets to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust memory on an affected device, causing it to crash and leading to a DoS condition.
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Affected products
6cpe:2.3:a:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cisco:telepresence_video_communication_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=x12.6.3
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: n/a
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