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CVE-2023-49786

Asterisk susceptible to Denial of Service via DTLS Hello packets during call initiation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 18.20.1, 20.5.1, 18.9-cert6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In Asterisk prior to versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, and 21.0.1; as well as certified-asterisk prior to 18.9-cert6; Asterisk is susceptible to a DoS due to a race condition in the hello handshake phase of the DTLS protocol when handling DTLS-SRTP for media setup. This attack can be done continuously, thus denying new DTLS-SRTP encrypted calls during the attack. Abuse of this vulnerability may lead to a massive Denial of Service on vulnerable Asterisk servers for calls that rely on DTLS-SRTP. Commit d7d7764cb07c8a1872804321302ef93bf62cba05 contains a fix, which is part of versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, 21.0.1, amd 18.9-cert6.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • asterisk asterisk

    fixed in 18.20.1; From 19.0.0 · fixed in 20.5.1; fixed in 18.9-cert6

References 7

GitHub · asterisk/asterisk

GitHub · EnableSecurity/advisories

openwall.com

packetstormsecurity.com

seclists.org

lists.debian.org