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Medium 6.9

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

CVE-2026-57203 First seen on SecPulse

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...

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
asterisk asterisk — —
asterisk certified-asterisk — —
Original description The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: CVE.org (CVE Program・cvelistV5) NVD

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