Medium 6.9Published Oct 27, 2026

CVE-2026-57203Asterisk: Local privilege escalation through ast_loggrabber's world-writable helper location

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 6:00 PM 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, `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.

CVSS: 6.9 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-426
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-xgj6-2gc5-5x9c	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/022407ec47adebe27b7ec8bcf5626e5a02fe1551	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a51c4e3d6bccce4bc4226c43e78952573a62f165	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/ba8e5bdecd5280fc0ab230df59e41ea21b3a052f	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/bd63fe121d0e86867863bd98b5771e592273b035	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/c0fc2ae54cb6289a48a80333432f5fdf5a40c7de	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/f18ac4c964781f671e400342790bf40679698067	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
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/22.10.1	x-refsource-misc
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