CVE-2008-2119
Asterisk Open Source 1.0.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.29 and Business Edition A.x.x and B.x.x before B.2.5.3, when pedantic parsing (aka…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 7.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Asterisk Open Source 1.0.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.29 and Business Edition A.x.x and B.x.x before B.2.5.3, when pedantic parsing (aka pedanticsipchecking) is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a SIP INVITE message that lacks a From header, related to invocations of the ast_uri_decode function, and improper handling of (1) an empty const string and (2) a NULL pointer.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Asterisk 1.2.x - SIP channel driver / in pedantic mode Remote Crash (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5749dos, multiplepublished 5 Jun 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5749 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 27 days later
· 27 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.3% · top 5.6% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- GLSA-200905-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 30517 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 5749 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- asterisk-asturidecode-dos(42823) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=12607 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1020166 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20080603 AST-2008-008: Remote Crash Vulnerability in SIP channel driver when run in pedantic mode (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1731 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 34982 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=120109 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-008.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2008-2116 (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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