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CVE-2026-23738

The Asterisk embedded web server 's /httpstatus page echos user supplied values(cookie and query string) without sanitization

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 23.2.2, 22.8.2, 21.12.1, 20.18.2, 20.7-cert9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2, user supplied/control values for Cookies and any GET variable query Parameter are directly interpolated into the HTML of the page using ast_str_append. The endpoint at GET /httpstatus is the potential vulnerable endpoint relating to asterisk/main /http.c. This issue has been patched in versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • asterisk asterisk

    fixed in 23.2.2; fixed in 22.8.2; fixed in 21.12.1; fixed in 20.18.2; fixed in 20.7-cert9

References 1

GitHub · asterisk/asterisk