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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-57203

Asterisk: Local privilege escalation through ast_loggrabber's world-writable helper location

Description

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, `ast_loggrabber` executes a `Python script` from the world-writable `/tmp` directory. An attacker already authorized to open a shell session on the Asterisk server may place a malicious script there and gain elevated privileges or execute code when an administrator runs `ast_loggrabber` as a user with elevated privileges. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.

Affected products

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

asterisk asterisk

  • < 20.20.1affected
  • >= 21.0.0-pre1, < 21.12.3affected
  • >= 22.0.0-pre1, < 22.10.1affected
  • >= 23.0.0-pre1, < 23.4.1affected

asterisk certified-asterisk

  • < 20.7-cert11affected
  • >= 22.8-cert1-pre1, < 22.8-cert3affected

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