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CVE-2023-49294

43
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-49294 is a high-severity arbitrary file read vulnerability affecting Asterisk and Certified Asterisk versions prior to 18.20.1, 20.5.1, 21.0.1, and 18.9-cert6 respectively. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to read any file on the system, even when the live_dangerously setting is disabled. With a CVSS score of 7.5, the vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, posing a significant risk of information disclosure. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 18.20.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 19.0.0, < 20.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:21.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sangoma:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sangoma:certified_asterisk:13.13.0:cert1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
45.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4557 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / asterisk/asterisk/blob/master/main/manager.c
Product
github.com / asterisk/asterisk/commit/424be345639d75c6cb7d0bd2da5f0f407dbd0bd5
Patch
github.com / asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-8857-hfmw-vg8f
Vendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00019.html