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CVE-2009-2346

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2346 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the IAX2 protocol implementation of various Asterisk and Sangoma products, including Asterisk Open Source versions 1.2.x, 1.4.x, 1.6.0.x, and 1.6.1.x, as well as specific Business Edition and s800i versions. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust call numbers by initiating numerous IAX2 message exchanges, leading to a complete denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
b.1.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk:b.1.3.2:*:business:*:*:*:*:*
b.1.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk:b.1.3.3:*:business:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk:b.2.2.0:*:business:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk:b.2.2.1:*:business:*:*:*:*:*
b.2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:asterisk:asterisk:b.2.3.1:*:business:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0258 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2346Important

asterisk: IAX2 DoS vulnerability (AST-2009-006)

Sep 3, 2009

References

downloads.asterisk.org / pub/security/AST-2009-006.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/36593
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
securityfocus.com / archive/1/506257/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/36275