UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23741 (CVE-2026-23741)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-02-06 17:16 – Updated: 2026-05-20 15:26 – Source website
VLAI
Details
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2, the asterisk/contrib/scripts/ast_coredumper runs as root, as noted by the NOTES tag on line 689 of the ast_coredumper file. The script will source the contents of /etc/asterisk/ast_debug_tools.conf, which resides in a folder that is writeable by the asterisk user:group. Due to the /etc/asterisk/ast_debug_tools.conf file following bash semantics and it being loaded; an attacker with write permissions may add or modify the file such that when the root ast_coredumper is run; it would source and thereby execute arbitrary bash code found in the /etc/asterisk/ast_debug_tools.conf. This issue has been patched in versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2.
Severity
0.0 (None)
8.8 (High)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-23741",
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