Asterisk Voicemail Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

BID:15336

Info

Asterisk Voicemail Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 15336
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-3559
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 07 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 05 2006 04:54PM
Credit: Adam Pointon of Assurance.com.au is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Debian Linux 3.1 sparc
Debian Linux 3.1 s/390
Debian Linux 3.1 ppc
Debian Linux 3.1 mipsel
Debian Linux 3.1 mips
Debian Linux 3.1 m68k
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-64
Debian Linux 3.1 ia-32
Debian Linux 3.1 hppa
Debian Linux 3.1 arm
Debian Linux 3.1 amd64
Debian Linux 3.1 alpha
Debian Linux 3.1
Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 3.0 mips
Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
Debian Linux 3.0 arm
Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
Debian Linux 3.0
Asterisk@Home Asterisk@Home 2.0 -beta4
Asterisk@Home Asterisk@Home 1.5
Asterisk Asterisk 1.2 .0-beta1
Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.9
Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.8
Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.7
Asterisk Asterisk 0.9 .0
Asterisk Asterisk 0.7.2
Asterisk Asterisk 0.7.1
Asterisk Asterisk 0.7 .0
Asterisk Asterisk 0.4
Asterisk Asterisk 0.3
Asterisk Asterisk 0.2
Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.11
Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.9 -1
Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.9
Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.8
Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.7
Not Vulnerable: Asterisk Asterisk 1.2 .0-beta2

Discussion

Asterisk Voicemail Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Asterisk is prone to an unauthorized-access vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly verify user-supplied input.

Successful exploitation will grant an attacker access to a victim user's voicemail and to any '.wav/.WAV' files currently on the affected system.

Exploit / POC

Asterisk Voicemail Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.org/cgi-bin/vmail.cgi?action=audio&folder=../201/INBOX&mailbox=200&context=default&password=12345&msgid=0001&format=wav

Solution / Fix

Asterisk Voicemail Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has addressed this issue in Asterisk version 1.2.0-beta2.

Please see the referenced vendor advisories for details on obtaining and applying the appropriate updates.


Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.11

Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.7

Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.8

Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.9

Asterisk Asterisk 0.1.9 -1

Asterisk Asterisk 0.2

Asterisk Asterisk 0.3

Asterisk Asterisk 0.4

Asterisk Asterisk 0.7 .0

Asterisk Asterisk 0.7.1

Asterisk Asterisk 0.7.2

Asterisk Asterisk 0.9 .0

Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.7

Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.8

Asterisk Asterisk 1.0.9

Asterisk Asterisk 1.2 .0-beta1

References

Asterisk Voicemail Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

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