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CVE-2008-1333
Format string vulnerability in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.x before 1.6.0-beta6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Format string vulnerability in Asterisk Open Source 1.6.x before 1.6.0-beta6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via logging messages that are not properly handled by (1) the ast_verbose logging API call, or (2) the astman_append function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- asterisk-astverbose-dos(41301) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20080318 AST-2008-004: Format String Vulnerability in Logger and Manager (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1019630 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 28311 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-004.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1525 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 29426 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.asterisk.org/node/48466 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0928 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 29456 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-1340 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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