THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-2294
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-2294

Asterisk vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The Manager Interface in Asterisk before 1.2.18 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by using MD5 authentication to authenticate a user that does not have a password defined in manager.conf, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.
Affected vendor
Asterisk
Affected product
Asterisk
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2007-04-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-2294

  • Confirm whether Asterisk Asterisk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-2294.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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