CVE-2023-49294
Asterisk Path Traversal vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. In Asterisk prior to versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, and 21.0.1, as well as certified-asterisk prior to 18.9-cert6, it is possible to read any arbitrary file even when the `live_dangerously` is not enabled. This allows arbitrary files to be read. Asterisk versions 18.20.1, 20.5.1, and 21.0.1, as well as certified-asterisk prior to 18.9-cert6, contain a fix for this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 45.3% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
Affected products
References (4)
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-8857-hfmw-vg8f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/424be345639d75c6cb7d0bd2da5f0f407dbd0bd5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/blob/master/main/manager.c#L3757 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00019.html (opens in a new tab)x_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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