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CVE-2026-57203 json

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

published 4mo ago modified 13d ago also EUVD-2026-111402 , GHSA-xgj6-2gc5-5x9c

Unreviewed: the maintainers' own advisory

Published by the maintainers on their GitHub repository asterisk/asterisk. GitHub has not reviewed it into the GitHub Advisory Database, so the affected packages and versions are the maintainers' word. Read the full advisory on GitHub.

cvss
6.9
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • digium certified_asterisk 20.7-cert11, 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.8-cert3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1
  • sangoma certified_asterisk 20.7-cert11, 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.8-cert3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1
  • digium asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1
  • asterisk open_source 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1
  • asterisk certified_asterisk 20.7-cert11, 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.8-cert3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1
  • asterisk Debian 14 1:22.10.1+dfsg+~cs6.17.60671434-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-57203

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-57203 updated cvss 7.3

asterisk: Asterisk: Privilege escalation via insecure script execution in ast_loggrabber

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
13d ago

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • asterisk asterisk
  • asterisk certified-asterisk

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of asterisk/asterisk published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.