CVE-2026-23740 NONE

CVE-2026-23740: Asterisk vulnerable to potential privilege escalation

Vendor Asterisk
Product asterisk
Weakness CWE-427
Published February 6, 2026
Last update February 6, 2026

CVSS base score

0.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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, when ast_coredumper writes its gdb init and output files to a directory that is world-writable (for example /tmp), an attacker with write permission(which is all users on a linux system) to that directory can cause root to execute arbitrary commands or overwrite arbitrary files by controlling the gdb init file and output paths. This issue has been patched in versions 20.7-cert9, 20.18.2, 21.12.1, 22.8.2, and 23.2.2.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 6, 2026 CVE published
February 6, 2026 Record updated