CVE-2008-5558

Asterisk Business Edition - Authentication Bypass

Title source: rule

Description

Asterisk Open Source 1.2.26 through 1.2.30.3 and Business Edition B.2.3.5 through B.2.5.5, when realtime IAX2 users are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via authentication attempts involving (1) an unknown user or (2) a user using hostname matching.

References (10)

[Various Sources] http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-012.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://osvdb.org/50675

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32956

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499117/100/0/threaded

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32773

[Third Party Advisory] http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200905-01.xml

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021378

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34982

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3403

[Third Party Advisory] http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4769

Scores

EPSS 0.0209

EPSS Percentile 83.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-287

Status draft

Affected Products (17)

asterisk/asterisk_business_edition

asterisk/asterisk_business_edition

asterisk/asterisk_business_edition

asterisk/asterisk_business_edition

asterisk/asterisk_business_edition

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

asterisk/open_source

... and 2 more

Timeline

Published Dec 17, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026