CVE-2019-18610
A remote authenticated Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) user without system authorization could use a specially crafted Originate AMI request to execute arbitrary system commands.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 50.1%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
An issue was discovered in manager.c in Sangoma Asterisk through 13.x, 16.x, 17.x and Certified Asterisk 13.21 through 13.21-cert4. A remote authenticated Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) user without system authorization could use a specially crafted Originate AMI request to execute arbitrary system commands.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 50.08% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Affected
- digium/asterisk · digium/certified asterisk · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 50.1% on 28 September 2026 to 50.1% on 3 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2019-007.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.asterisk.org/downloads/security-advisoriesVendor Advisory
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2019-007.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.asterisk.org/downloads/security-advisoriesVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.