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None · 0.0 CVE-2026-23740 EUVD-2026-5617

Asterisk vulnerable to potential privilege escalation

Published Feb 6, 2026 · Updated Feb 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
asterisk asterisk < 23.2.2, < 22.8.2, < 21.12.1, < 20.18.2, < 20.7-cert9 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 asterisk 1:22.8.2+dfsg+~cs6.15.60671435-1 —
Debian 11 asterisk 1:16.28.0~dfsg-0+deb11u9 DLA-4515-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS asterisk No fix yet —

Advisories 2

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