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Vulnerability details: VCID-y2d6-pyca-8fh1
Vulnerability ID VCID-y2d6-pyca-8fh1
Aliases CVE-2026-23741
Summary Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2, the asterisk/contrib/scripts/ast_coredumper runs as root, as noted by the NOTES tag on line 689 of the ast_coredumper file. The script will source the contents of /etc/asterisk/ast_debug_tools.conf, which resides in a folder that is writeable by the asterisk user:group. Due to the /etc/asterisk/ast_debug_tools.conf file following bash semantics and it being loaded; an attacker with write permissions may add or modify the file such that when the root ast_coredumper is run; it would source and thereby execute arbitrary bash code found in the /etc/asterisk/ast_debug_tools.conf. This issue has been patched in versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element
System Score Found at
epss 0.00041 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-23741
cvssv3.1 0 https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-rvch-3jmx-3jf3
ssvc Track https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-rvch-3jmx-3jf3
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-23741
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-23741
1127438 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127438
GHSA-rvch-3jmx-3jf3 https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-rvch-3jmx-3jf3
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-rvch-3jmx-3jf3
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-02-06T17:22:49Z/ Found at https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-rvch-3jmx-3jf3
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.12698
EPSS Score 0.00041
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T13:49:27.452519+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.6.0