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CVE-2009-0041

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0041 describes a username enumeration vulnerability in the IAX2 protocol of various Asterisk products, including Open Source, Business Edition, and s800i versions. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to determine valid user accounts by observing differing responses to failed login attempts. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), it has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and a potential impact of partial confidentiality loss, but no integrity or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= b.2.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= c.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:*:beta8:*:*:*:*:*:*
aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b.1.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.1.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
b.1.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk_business_edition:b.1.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0272 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0041Low

asterisk: Replies to failed login attempts differently based on whether the user account exists (information disclosure)

Jan 8, 2009

References

downloads.digium.com / pub/security/AST-2009-001.html
secunia.com / advisories/33453
secunia.com / advisories/34982
secunia.com / advisories/37677
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200905-01.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/4910
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1952
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499884/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/33174
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0063