CVE-2007-2294: Asterisk

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Manager Interface in Asterisk before 1.2.18 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by using MD5 authentication to authenticate a user that does not have a password defined in manager.conf, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Asterisk Asterisk: version 1.2.0_beta1 only; version 1.2.0_beta2 only; version 1.2.5 only; version 1.2.6 only; version 1.2.7 only; version 1.2.8 only; …

Published 2007-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.