CVE-2026-57203
Asterisk: Local privilege escalation through ast_loggrabber's world-writable helper location
02 Description
Asterisk: Local privilege escalation through ast_loggrabber's world-writable helper location
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.14% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 3.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.9 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Awaiting Analysis. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-28.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-10-27 21:48Z1 DAY AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-27 21:48Z1 DAY AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-06-24
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.9)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426Untrusted Search PathBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 11c136469f92f515b7b2aebd01def8b8e2af1d7c04d6b3af3fd4c4370e65c391
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-xgj6-2gc5-5x9c
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/022407ec47adebe27b7ec8bcf5626e5a02fe1551
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/a51c4e3d6bccce4bc4226c43e78952573a62f165
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/ba8e5bdecd5280fc0ab230df59e41ea21b3a052f
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/bd63fe121d0e86867863bd98b5771e592273b035
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/c0fc2ae54cb6289a48a80333432f5fdf5a40c7de
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/f18ac4c964781f671e400342790bf40679698067
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/20.20.1
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/21.12.3
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/22.10.1
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/23.4.1
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/certified-20.7-cert11
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/releases/tag/certified-22.8-cert3
- github.comhttps://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/tree/24.0.0-pre1
07 Fixed in
Debian 14
- asterisk Fixed in 1:22.10.1+dfsg+~cs6.17.60671434-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.10
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- asterisk No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.