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CVE-2008-5558

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5558 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Asterisk Open Source versions 1.2.26 through 1.2.30.3 and Business Edition B.2.3.5 through B.2.5.5, specifically when realtime IAX2 users are enabled. Remote attackers can crash the server by attempting authentication with an unknown user or a user employing hostname matching. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and partial availability impact, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
b.2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0196 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

downloads.digium.com / pub/security/AST-2008-012.html
osvdb.org / 50675
secunia.com / advisories/32956
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34982
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200905-01.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/4769
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499117/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/32773
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3403