Buffer overflow in Opensips

CVE-2026-45809

OpenSIPS is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation. Versions prior to 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the watcherinfo generation functionality. An attacker can create an oversized watcher entry by sending a SUBSCRIBE Event: presence request with a long From URI, and then trigger presence.winfo watcherinfo XML generation for the same presentity. OpenSIPS copies the stored watcher URI into a fixed-size stack buffer, overflowing it and crashing the process. A remote attacker can crash an OpenSIPS worker in deployments that expose handle_subscribe() and allow watcherinfo (presence.winfo) generation. The issue is configuration-dependent because the presence and presence_xml modules must be loaded and SUBSCRIBE routing must be reachable. This issue has been fixed in versions 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (32.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Opensips — versions >= 3.4.0, < 3.6.6, >= 4.0.0-beta, < 4.0.0-rc1

Weakness classification (CWE)

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