THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2021-32558
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2021-32558

Asterisk vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
9.1%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
An issue was discovered in Sangoma Asterisk 13.x before 13.38.3, 16.x before 16.19.1, 17.x before 17.9.4, and 18.x before 18.5.1, and Certified Asterisk before 16.8-cert10. If the IAX2 channel driver receives a packet that contains an unsupported media format, a crash can occur.
Affected vendor
Digium
Affected product
Asterisk
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-07-30

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 9.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2021-32558

  • Confirm whether Digium Asterisk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2021-32558.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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