MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2014-4046

Asterisk vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
5.7%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.10.1 and 12.x before 12.3.1 and Certified Asterisk 11.6 before 11.6-cert3 allows remote authenticated Manager users to execute arbitrary shell commands via a MixMonitor action.
Affected vendor
Digium
Affected product
Asterisk
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2014-06-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Digium Asterisk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-4046.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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