CVE-2026-57202
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit
- Risk score
- 49/100
- CVSS
- 8.1 v3.1
- 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 authenticated Asterisk REST Interface (ARI) attacker with read-only privileges may use setChannelVar to execute write dialplan functions, incl…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 8.1 high
References
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/8f8ccaf70a80e518147b0c35c0c252de4735446f
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/92a5dd1003b737ae1cd2df4e60b73beb8d5e42bb
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/ba04e7f1f98887c3c6e0dc4ddce663021f7e948a
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/bf9354267557ef6d6b75f5304faa243f595a5a66
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/caa4d50d9c3bf04fc979b5b2cdc5dc425772d845
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/d47b0b6e5a384746db194f751b53d559aba8dba9
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/d8614505b27688dec3a1d14554f52fda94712928
- 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 authenticated Asterisk REST Interface (ARI) attacker with read-only privileges may use `setChannelVar` to execute write dialplan functions, including `FILE()` writes, even when `live_dangerously` in `asterisk.conf` is set to no. The Asterisk HTTP web server must be enabled and reachable, and the attacker must already have valid `read-only ARI credentials`. HTTP is disabled by default and binds only to 127.0.0.1 by default even when enabled. 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.