CVE-2014-8417 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8417?

CVE-2014-8417 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Digium Asterisk, published on 24 Nov 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ConfBridge in Asterisk 11.x before 11.14.1, 12.x before 12.7.1, and 13.x before 13.0.1 and Certified Asterisk 11.6 before 11.6-cert8 allows remote authenticated users to (1) gain privileges via vectors related to an external protocol to the CONFBRIDGE dialplan function or (2) execute arbitrary system commands via a crafted ConfbridgeStartRecord AMI action.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8417?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Digium Asterisk, Digium Certified Asterisk.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8417?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-8417 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8417 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Digium Asterisk

• CVE-2017-14100 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-8418 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2011-1599 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2017-16671 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2017-7617 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8

All Digium Asterisk vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8417, GHSA-44x6-ph3p-558g.