CVE-2014-2286 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published 18 Apr 2014 Updated 6 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can cause denial of service or execute arbitrary code via HTTP requests with excessive Cookie headers in Asterisk.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2014-2286?

CVE-2014-2286 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Digium Asterisk, published on 18 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

main/http.c in Asterisk Open Source 1.8.x before 1.8.26.1, 11.8.x before 11.8.1, and 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and Certified Asterisk 1.8.x before 1.8.15-cert5 and 11.6 before 11.6-cert2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP request with a large number of Cookie headers.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-2286?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Digium Asterisk, Digium Certified Asterisk, Fedoraproject Fedora.

How do I fix CVE-2014-2286?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-2286 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-2286 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Digium Asterisk vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2286, GHSA-v4h6-4vfg-m45q.