CVE-2026-23740CWE-427

Asterisk vulnerable to potential privilege escalation

published February 6, 2026

CVSS v3.1
0.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2, when ast_coredumper writes its gdb init and output files to a directory that is world-writable (for example /tmp), an attacker with write permission(which is all users on a linux system) to that directory can cause root to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files by controlling the gdb init file and output paths. This issue has been patched in versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
0.0 · NONE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00133 · 2.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-427 · Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Published
2026-02-06T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 FEB 16:43Z
    Asterisk vulnerable to potential privilege escalation
    cvelistv5