CVE-2007-2294

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Manager Interface in Asterisk before 1.2.18 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by using MD5 authentication to authenticate a user that does not have a password defined in manager.conf, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Asterisk: 1.2.0_beta1, 1.2.0_beta2, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.2.8 (+12)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24977
http://secunia.com/advisories/25582
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2646
http://www.asterisk.org/files/ASA-2007-012.pdf
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1358
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_34_asterisk.html
http://www.osvdb.org/35369
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466911/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23649
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017955
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1534
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33886

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