VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-17281

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability52.45%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references