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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD0.0 None

CVE-2026-23740

Asterisk vulnerable to potential privilege escalation

Description

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2, when ast_coredumper writes its gdb init and output files to a directory that is world-writable (for example /tmp), an attacker with write permission(which is all users on a linux system) to that directory can cause root to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files by controlling the gdb init file and output paths. This issue has been patched in versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

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  • < 23.2.2affected
  • < 22.8.2affected
  • < 21.12.1affected
  • < 20.18.2affected
  • < 20.7-cert9affected

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