Medium severity · published Nov 22, 2019
CVE-2019-18790
An issue was discovered in channels/chan_sip.c in Sangoma Asterisk 13.x before 13.29.2, 16.x before 16.6.2, and 17.x before 17.0.1, and Certified Asterisk 13.21 before cert5
6.5
CVSS
4.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in channels/chan_sip.c in Sangoma Asterisk 13.x before 13.29.2, 16.x before 16.6.2, and 17.x before 17.0.1, and Certified Asterisk 13.21 before cert5. A SIP request can be sent to Asterisk that can change a SIP peer's IP address. A REGISTER does not need to occur, and calls can be hijacked as a result. The only thing that needs to be known is the peer's name; authentication details such as passwords do not need to be known. This vulnerability is only exploitable when the nat option is set to the default, or auto_force_rport.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.2% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
Asterisk · Digium
13.0.0 before 13.29.2; 16.0.0 before 16.6.2; 17.0.0 before 17.0.1 · source: NVD
CA
Certified Asterisk · Digium
13.21.0; 13.21.0; 13.21.0; 13.21.0; 13.21.0; 13.21.0 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18790
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18790
Patch
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2019-006.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00038.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00001.html
Vendor Advisory
https://www.asterisk.org/downloads/security-advisories
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