What is CVE-2016-9938?

CVE-2016-9938 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Digium Asterisk, classified under Improper Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-12-12.

How severe is CVE-2016-9938?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-9938 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Digium Asterisk

CVE-2016-9938

An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 11.x before 11.25.1, 13.x before 13.13.1, and 14.x before 14.2.1 and Certified Asterisk 11.x before 11.6-cert16 and 13.x before 13.8-cert4. The chan_sip channel driver has a liberal definitio…

EPSS: 0.014 (81.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Digium Asterisk — versions 11.0.0, 11.0.1, 11.0.2
Digium Certified_asterisk — versions 11.0.0, 11.1.0, 11.2.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-285 — Improper Authorization

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
94789 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
1037408 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9938?: CVE-2016-9938 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Digium Asterisk, classified under Improper Authorization. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2016-9938?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-9938 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.