Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions Affecting asterisk package, versions [,18.24.2)[19.0.0-rc1,20.9.2)[21.0.0-pre1,21.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
21.94% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ASTERISK-7659972
  • published9 Aug 2024
  • disclosed8 Aug 2024
  • creditNielsGaljaard

Introduced: 8 Aug 2024

CVE-2024-42365  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-267  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade asterisk to version 18.24.2, 20.9.2, 21.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in manager.c that allows a user with Write=orignate to modify all files in /etc/asterisk/, which in turn allows privilege elevation that can be used to execute code.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1