# CVE-2025-57767: Asterisk can crash from a specifically malformed Authorization header in an incoming SIP request

- 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
- Fixed in: 22.5.2, 21.10.2, 20.15.2
- Published: 2025-08-28 · Updated: 2025-08-28

## Affected

- asterisk: fixed in 22.5.2; fixed in 21.10.2; fixed in 20.15.2

## Description

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 20.15.2, 21.10.2, and 22.5.2, if a SIP request is received with an Authorization header that contains a realm that wasn't in a previous 401 response's WWW-Authenticate header, or an Authorization header with an incorrect realm was received without a previous 401 response being sent, the get_authorization_header() function in res_pjsip_authenticator_digest will return a NULL. This wasn't being checked before attempting to get the digest algorithm from the header which causes a SEGV. This issue has been patched in versions 20.15.2, 21.10.2, and 22.5.2. There are no workarounds.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on asterisk, upgrade to a fixed version (22.5.2, 21.10.2, 20.15.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-64qc-9x89-rx5j
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/pull/1407
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/02993717b08f899d4aca9888062f35dfb198584f

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