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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-17281

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 53.4%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 53.4%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
53.38% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400
Affected
digium/asterisk · digium/certified asterisk · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.