CVE-2011-1599

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-04-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

manager.c in the Manager Interface in Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x before 1.4.40.1, 1.6.1.x before 1.6.1.25, 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.17.3, and 1.8.x before 1.8.3.3 and Asterisk Business Edition C.x.x before C.3.6.4 does not properly check for the system privilege, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via an Originate action that has an Async header in conjunction with an Application header.

Affected products

Digium Asterisk: 1.4.0, 1.4.0-beta1, 1.4.0-beta2, 1.4.0-beta3, 1.4.0-beta4, 1.4.1 (+217)

References

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2011-006.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058922.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-May/059702.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/22/6
http://secunia.com/advisories/44197
http://secunia.com/advisories/44529
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025433
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2225
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47537
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1086
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1107
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/1188

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