CVE-2020-28242
mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
An issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.37.1, 16.x before 16.14.1, 17.x before 17.8.1, and 18.x before 18.0.1 and Certified Asterisk before 16.8-cert5. If Asterisk is challenged on an outbound INVITE and the nonce is changed in each response, Asterisk will continually send INVITEs in a loop. This causes Asterisk to consume more and more memory since the transaction will never terminate (even if the call is hung up), ultimately leading to a restart or shutdown of Asterisk. Outbound authentication must be configured on the endpoint for this to occur.
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affected products (8)
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- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-002.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00001.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUS54QTQCYKR36EIULYD544GXDA644HB/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28242cnnvd
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-002.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00001.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QUS54QTQCYKR36EIULYD544GXDA644HB/enisa_euvd
- http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2020-002.htmlVendor Advisorynvd
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