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CVE-2017-17090
An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified…
High7.5EPSS 82.2%
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Description
An issue was discovered in chan_skinny.c in Asterisk Open Source 13.18.2 and older, 14.7.2 and older, and 15.1.2 and older, and Certified Asterisk 13.13-cert7 and older. If the chan_skinny (aka SCCP protocol) channel driver is flooded with certain requests, it can cause the asterisk process to use excessive amounts of virtual memory, eventually causing asterisk to stop processing requests of any kind.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 82.2% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (7)
- 1039948 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 43992 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 102023 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27452 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20171230 [SECURITY] [DLA 1225-1] asterisk security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-4076 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-013.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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