Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Affecting asterisk package, versions [,1.6.0-beta1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.78% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ASTERISK-2371655
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Mar 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Mar 2007

CVE-2007-1595  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade asterisk to version 1.6.0-beta1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type. The Asterisk Extension Language (AEL) in pbx/pbx_ael.c in Asterisk does not properly generate extensions, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary extensions and have an unknown impact by specifying an invalid extension in a certain form.

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CVSS Base Scores

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