CVE-2025-47779

moderate-risk
Published 2025-05-22

Asterisk is an open-source private branch exchange (PBX). Prior to versions 18.26.2, 20.14.1, 21.9.1, and 22.4.1 of Asterisk and versions 18.9-cert14 and 20.7-cert5 of certified-asterisk, SIP requests of the type MESSAGE (RFC 3428) authentication do not get proper alignment. An authenticated attacker can spoof any user identity to send spam messages to the user with their authorization token. Abuse of this security issue allows authenticated attackers to send fake chat messages can be spoofed to appear to come from trusted entities. Even administrators who follow Security best practices and Security Considerations can be impacted. Therefore, abuse can lead to spam and enable social engineering, phishing and similar attacks. Versions 18.26.2, 20.14.1, 21.9.1, and 22.4.1 of Asterisk and versions 18.9-cert14 and 20.7-cert5 of certified-asterisk fix the issue.

Do I need to act?

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0.28% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.7/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk
Certified Asterisk

Affected Vendors

49
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 27/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 21/34 · High