Bug 2564859

Summary:	CVE-2026-57202 asterisk: Asterisk: Privilege escalation via setChannelVar in Asterisk REST Interface [fedora-44]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	gkamathe
Component:	asterisk	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	ON_QA ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	44	CC:	bennie.joubert, jsmith.fedora, lemenkov
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Description gkamathe 2026-11-02 09:57:59 UTC

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, an authenticated Asterisk REST Interface (ARI) attacker with read-only privileges may use `setChannelVar` to execute write dialplan functions, including `FILE()` writes, even when `live_dangerously` in `asterisk.conf` is set to no. The Asterisk HTTP web server must be enabled and reachable, and the attacker must already have valid `read-only ARI credentials`. HTTP is disabled by default and binds only to 127.0.0.1 by default even when enabled. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-11-02 14:52:43 UTC

FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf (asterisk-18.26.4-2.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-11-03 02:58:00 UTC

FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3e65fe0daf

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.