7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.5%
Asterisk is prone to a denial of service vulnerability in audio
transcoding.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:digium:asterisk";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.142857");
script_version("2023-12-19T05:05:25+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-12-19 05:05:25 +0000 (Tue, 19 Dec 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-09-06 05:05:08 +0000 (Fri, 06 Sep 2019)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-09-10 16:49:00 +0000 (Tue, 10 Sep 2019)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-15639");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Asterisk Audio Transcoding DoS Vulnerability (AST-2019-005)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_digium_asterisk_sip_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("digium/asterisk/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Asterisk is prone to a denial of service vulnerability in audio
transcoding.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This issue presented itself when an RTP packet containing no
audio (and thus no samples) was received. In a particular transcoding scenario this audio frame
would get turned into a frame with no origin information. If this new frame was then given to the
audio transcoding support a crash would occur as no samples and no origin information would be
present. The transcoding scenario requires the 'genericplc' option to be set to enabled (the
default) and a transcoding path from the source format into signed linear and then from signed
linear into another format.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Asterisk Open Source 13.28.0 and 16.5.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 13.28.1, 16.5.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2019-005.html");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
exit(0);
if ("cert" >< version)
exit(99);
if (version =~ "^13\.28\.0") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "13.28.1");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
if (version =~ "^16\.5\.0") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "16.5.1");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
exit(0);
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
74.5%