Medium severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2026
CVE-2026-57203
CVE-2026-57203
Description
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, ast_loggrabber executes a Python script from the world-writable /tmp directory. An attacker already authorized to open a shell session on the Asterisk server may place a malicious script there and gain elevated privileges or execute code when an administrator runs ast_loggrabber as a user with elevated privileges. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.
Affected products
2- Range: < 20.7-cert11, < 22.8-cert3
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
14- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/022407ec47adebe27b7ec8bcf5626e5a02fe1551nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a51c4e3d6bccce4bc4226c43e78952573a62f165nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/ba8e5bdecd5280fc0ab230df59e41ea21b3a052fnvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/bd63fe121d0e86867863bd98b5771e592273b035nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/c0fc2ae54cb6289a48a80333432f5fdf5a40c7denvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/f18ac4c964781f671e400342790bf40679698067nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/20.20.1nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/21.12.3nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/22.10.1nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/23.4.1nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/certified-20.7-cert11nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/certified-22.8-cert3nvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-xgj6-2gc5-5x9cnvd
- github.com/asterisk/asterisk/tree/24.0.0-pre1nvd
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