Improper Authentication Affecting asterisk package, versions [,1.6.2.24)[1.8.11.0,1.8.11.1)[10.3.0,10.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
91.89% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ASTERISK-2371564
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Apr 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Apr 2012

CVE-2012-2414  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade asterisk to version 1.6.2.24, 1.8.11.1, 10.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication main/manager.c in the Manager Interface in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.24, 1.8.x before 1.8.11.1, and 10.x before 10.3.1 and Asterisk Business Edition C.3.x before C.3.7.4 does not properly enforce System class authorization requirements, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via (1) the originate action in the MixMonitor application, (2) the SHELL and EVAL functions in the GetVar manager action, or (3) the SHELL and EVAL functions in the Status manager action.

CVSS Scores

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