CVE-2026-57191
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit
- Risk score
- 54/100
- CVSS
- 8.2 v4.0
- Published
- 27 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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 unbounded sscanf in res_pjsip_pubsub when parsing the MWI NOTIFY Message-Account field may allow an unauthenticated attacker to send a careful…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 8.2 high
- Remotely exploitable without logging in
References
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/0e89514084490070c5ecee419ec5ee37b7c49528
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/647b35c3cfd4a2cc3b1fb7560b085feba5c24b4b
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/7a1ffcdf38cc76d1c4eae51651667f3fd4548ab0
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/b4be3bd67ce4ac35b94fbfa860cdd9e1c906610b
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/b5281828dad7d44658439ba6393fe6be3328a4bd
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/dca516f6d895e8867d48fa56b6ce7f05b6f7457a
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/ee1b66a5e40733ba0b9fad7fc4d032cabbe1dd75
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/20.20.1
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/21.12.3
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/22.10.1
Original 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 unbounded `sscanf` in `res_pjsip_pubsub` when parsing the `MWI NOTIFY` `Message-Account` field may allow an unauthenticated attacker to send a carefully crafted packet that causes a stack buffer overflow and corrupts the underlying transport, permanently disabling all SIP functionality. An Asterisk restart is required to restore full operation. 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.
Last activity 27 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.