A Remote Crash issue was discovered in Asterisk Open Source 13.x before 13.18.4, 14.x before 14.7.4, and 15.x before 15.1.4 and Certified Asterisk before 13.13-cert9. Certain compound RTCP packets cause a crash in the RTCP Stack.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2017-17664 is rated Moderate Risk (62.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 30.29%, 98th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. EPSS rose +29.01% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 1.28% | 30.29% | +29.01% |
| 2 | 2026-01-16 | 3.14% | 1.28% | -1.86% |
| 3 | 2025-05-13 | — | 3.14% | — |
Full EPSS history (15 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.9 | 3.0 | MEDIUM |
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2.2 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 4.3 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.6 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2017-17664 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (asterisk), 2 status rows across 2 suites (bullseye, sid): resolved 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17664 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2017-17664 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (asterisk), 21 status rows across 21 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 15, ignored 2, needed 2, DNE 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17664 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| digium | asterisk | >= 13.0.0, < 13.18.4 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | asterisk | >= 14.0.0, < 14.7.4 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | asterisk | >= 15.0.0, < 15.1.4 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | <= 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert1_rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert5:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert6:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert7:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | 13.13 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:13.13:cert8:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2017-012.html | Vendor Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102201 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040009 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27382 | Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27429 | Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4076 | Third Party Advisory |