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CVE-2018-17281

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 53.38% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-09-24 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

External Security References
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CVE
CVE-2018-17281
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
53.38%

Original NVD Description

There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the res_http_websocket.so module of Asterisk through 13.23.0, 14.7.x through 14.7.7, and 15.x through 15.6.0 and Certified Asterisk through 13.21-cert2. It allows an attacker to crash Asterisk via a specially crafted HTTP request to upgrade the connection to a websocket.