CVE-2025-54995 (GCVE-0-2025-54995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-28 15:08 – Updated: 2025-11-03 17:45
VLAI
Title
Asterisk remotely exploitable leak of RTP UDP ports and internal resources
Summary
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 18.26.4 and 18.9-cert17, RTP UDP ports and internal resources can leak due to a lack of session termination. This could result in leaks and resource exhaustion. This issue has been patched in versions 18.26.4 and 18.9-cert17.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
asterisk asterisk Affected: < 18.26.4
Affected: < 18.9-cert17
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