CVE-2008-1333

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.x before 1.6.0-beta6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via logging messages that are not properly handled by (1) the ast_verbose logging API call, or (2) the astman_append function.

Affected products

asterisk Open Source: 1.6.0_beta1, 1.6.0_beta2, 1.6.0_beta3, 1.6.0_beta4, 1.6.0_beta5

References

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29426
http://secunia.com/advisories/29456
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019630
http://www.asterisk.org/node/48466
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1525
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489823/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28311
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0928
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41301
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29426

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