Bug 2397965

Summary: CVE-2025-1131 libss7: Asterisk Unsafe Shell Sourcing Leads to Local Privilege Escalation [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jon Moroney <jmoroney>
Component: libss7Assignee: Ben Beasley <code>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 42CC: code, jsmith.fedora
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Description Jon Moroney 2025-09-24 20:35:34 UTC 
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Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2025-09-24 21:30:40 UTC 
Per https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1131:

> A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the safe_asterisk script included with the Asterisk toolkit package. When Asterisk is started via this script (common in SysV init or FreePBX environments), it sources all .sh files located in /etc/asterisk/startup.d/ as root, without validating ownership or permissions. Non-root users with legitimate write access to /etc/asterisk can exploit this behaviour by placing malicious scripts in the startup.d directory, which will then execute with root privileges upon service restart.

While libss7 belongs to the Asterisk stack, it provides only a C shared library. It does not include the safe_asterisk script or any other shell scripts. It is therefore not affected by CVE-2025-1131.