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)[cetified/1.8.6-cert1,certified-18.9-cert11)[certified-20.7-cert1-rc1,certified-20.7-cert2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
4.9% (93rd 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, certified-18.9-cert11, certified-20.7-cert2 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 Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1