4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
52.9%
Asterisk is prone to a denial of service vulnerability where an
unsuspecting user could crash Asterisk with multiple hold/unhold requests.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.145419");
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:"2021-02-19 04:10:41 +0000 (Fri, 19 Feb 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2021-02-26 17:02:00 +0000 (Fri, 26 Feb 2021)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2021-26713");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Asterisk DoS Vulnerability (AST-2021-004)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 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 where an
unsuspecting user could crash Asterisk with multiple hold/unhold requests.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Due to a signedness comparison mismatch, an authenticated WebRTC
client could cause a stack overflow and Asterisk crash by sending multiple hold/unhold requests in
quick succession.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Asterisk Open Source 16.16.0, 17.9.1, 18.2.0 and 16.8-cert5.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 16.16.1, 17.9.2, 18.2.1, 16.8-cert6 or
later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2021-004.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 (version == "16.8cert5") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "16.8-cert6");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
if (version == "16.16.0") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "16.16.1");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
if (version == "17.9.1") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "17.9.2");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
if (version == "18.2.0") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "18.2.1");
security_message(port: port, data: report, proto: "udp");
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.002 Low
EPSS
Percentile
52.9%