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CVE-2020-28327

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-28327 describes a crash vulnerability in Asterisk Open Source and Certified Asterisk versions, specifically affecting res_pjsip_session. This flaw occurs when a new SIP Invite is received via connection-oriented protocols (TCP/TLS), where a race condition allows another thread to free a dialog object before the creating thread can properly use it, leading to a crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating a network attack vector with high attack complexity, requiring either authenticated access or anonymous calling to be enabled, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:16.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:16.8:cert1-rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:16.8:cert1-rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:16.8:cert1-rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:16.8:cert1-rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0197 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 1,428 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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-2020-001.html
PatchVendor Advisory
issues.asterisk.org / jira/browse/ASTERISK-29057
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory