Medium 6.5Published Oct 27, 2026

CVE-2026-57185Asterisk: Buffer over-read in Asterisk PJSIP MWI body parser

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 29, 2026, 7:10 AM ET)

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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, an authenticated attacker may crash Asterisk through a buffer over-read in the `PJSIP MWI body parser` by sending a carefully crafted `SIP NOTIFY` request. The attacker must pass SIP authentication using either a username/password or `source IP address matching`. 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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-126, CWE-170
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Oct 27, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 27, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

asterisk asterisk asterisk:asterisk (from the name)	before 20.20.1; from 21.0.0-pre1, < 21.12.3; from 22.0.0-pre1, < 22.10.1; from 23.0.0-pre1, < 23.4.1	CNA record
asterisk certified-asterisk asterisk:certified_asterisk (from the name)	before 20.7-cert11; from 22.8-cert1-pre1, < 22.8-cert3	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-8jw3-ccr9-xrmf	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/07aec894a1fdfa7fa989d3ab40fdf0dcda8005bb	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/1039bed76fa3248f58b6880e4b3f1421ef98b01f	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/1b2d99d8eb9206d37fd47115996f67fd28bd056f	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/3100a0d331affbf0995b8c57aaddb31cf3971f6e	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/57ce484a45b098de417f19265c95c64497782e36	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/919f2ffda03329c9014bedcb3c7789d38660c9ed	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/dafff9fb60281817225f1ce6371a5aa2fbb967a4	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/20.20.1	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/21.12.3	x-refsource-misc
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