CVE-2023-49786

HIGH

Digium Asterisk < 18.20.1 - Race Condition

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In Asterisk prior to versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, and 21.0.1; as well as certified-asterisk prior to 18.9-cert6; Asterisk is susceptible to a DoS due to a race condition in the hello handshake phase of the DTLS protocol when handling DTLS-SRTP for media setup. This attack can be done continuously, thus denying new DTLS-SRTP encrypted calls during the attack. Abuse of this vulnerability may lead to a massive Denial of Service on vulnerable Asterisk servers for calls that rely on DTLS-SRTP. Commit d7d7764cb07c8a1872804321302ef93bf62cba05 contains a fix, which is part of versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, 21.0.1, amd 18.9-cert6.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 26.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-362 CWE-703
Status published
Products (5)
digium/asterisk 21.0.0
digium/asterisk < 18.20.1
sangoma/certified_asterisk 13.13.0 (10 CPE variants)
sangoma/certified_asterisk 16.8.0 (13 CPE variants)
sangoma/certified_asterisk 18.9 cert1 (5 CPE variants)
Published Dec 14, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026