CVE-2026-23740

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
asteriskasterisk< 23.2.2affected
asteriskasterisk< 22.8.2affected
asteriskasterisk< 21.12.1affected
asteriskasterisk< 20.18.2affected
asteriskasterisk< 20.7-cert9affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-427: CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References