Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Asterisk Open Source and Certified Asterisk - CVE-2026-57202

 

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Asterisk Open Source and Certified Asterisk - CVE-2026-57202

Published: June 26, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU135552
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-57202
CWE-ID: CWE-1220
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform unauthorized file writes.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient granularity of access control in the ARI setChannelVar functionality when handling requests to set channel variables using the FILE() dialplan function. A remote user can send a specially crafted request to perform unauthorized file writes.

The Asterisk HTTP webserver must be enabled, and the issue is reachable only if the attacker can connect to that server. Valid read-only ARI credentials are required.


Affected software

Asterisk Open Source
Certified Asterisk

How to mitigate CVE-2026-57202

Install security update from vendor's website.

Asterisk Open Source - addressed in versions 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1
Certified Asterisk - addressed in versions 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3

External References

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