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CVE-2025-49832

Asterisk is Vulnerable to Remote DoS and possible RCE Attacks During Memory Allocation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 18.26.3, 20.15.1, 21.10.1, 22.5.1, 20.7-cert7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In versions up to and including 18.26.2, between 20.00.0 and 20.15.0, 20.7-cert6, 21.00.0, 22.00.0 through 22.5.0, there is a remote DoS and possible RCE condition in `asterisk/res/res_stir_shaken /verification.c` that can be exploited when an attacker can set an arbitrary Identity header, or STIR/SHAKEN is enabled, with verification set in the SIP profile associated with the endpoint to be attacked. This is fixed in versions 18.26.3, 20.7-cert6, 20.15.1, 21.10.1 and 22.5.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

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    fixed in 18.26.3; From 20.00.0 · fixed in 20.15.1; From 21.00.0 · fixed in 21.10.1; From 22.00.0 · fixed in 22.5.1; From 20.7-cert6 · fixed in 20.7-cert7

References 1

GitHub · asterisk/asterisk