Medium severity · published Oct 27, 2026
CVE-2026-57192
Asterisk: Out-of-Bounds Write in Codec2 Decoder Due to Floor/Ceil Sample Count Mismatch
New
6.0
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, an authenticated attacker may cause a heap buffer overflow through an out-of-bounds write in the `Codec2` decoder caused by a `floor/ceil sample-count mismatch`. The `codec_codec2` module must be loaded and `Codec2` must be configured on the attacked endpoint. The attacker must pass SIP authentication by username/password or `source IP address matching`, establish a call using `Codec2`, and send carefully crafted `Codec2` audio packets. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AS
asterisk · asterisk
< 20.20.1; >= 21.0.0-pre1, < 21.12.3; >= 22.0.0-pre1, < 22.10.1; >= 23.0.0-pre1, < 23.4.1 · source: vendor
CE
certified-asterisk · asterisk
< 20.7-cert11; >= 22.8-cert1-pre1, < 22.8-cert3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57192
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-57192
github.com
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/02e2d8d51efe1f811f2929224339cb1a35ffc079
github.com
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/4f5cad0611c67638a0a61cfedbe645045da8dd56
github.com
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/9b085d48fb66e90a0740ea59e26840421fd07acb
github.com
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a0bc717b2261f4df7cdecc22b58a5fffbd1aa398
github.com
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a2f1cc611f7d0f21faa03e8535009df3041c434c
github.com
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/aa40bc599a8e628859ef1c4fc944261423ceac0d
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