CVE-2023-49786CWE-703

Asterisk susceptible to Denial of Service via DTLS Hello packets during call initiation

High · published December 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
5%
Percentile
92.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05295 · 92.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-703 · Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2023-12-14T19:47Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 DEC 19:47Z
    Asterisk susceptible to Denial of Service via DTLS Hello packets during call initiation
    cvelistv5