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CVE-2017-17850

62
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-17850 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting specific versions of Digium Asterisk and Certified Asterisk. The flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash the Asterisk server by sending specially crafted SIP messages lacking a contact header when using the PJSIP channel driver. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 13.0.0, <= 13.18.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 14.0.0, <= 14.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 15.0.0, <= 15.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.1.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
75.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7535 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

downloads.asterisk.org / pub/security/AST-2017-014.html
Vendor Advisory
issues.asterisk.org / jira/browse/ASTERISK-27480
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201811-11
securitytracker.com / id/1040056
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry