An issue was discovered in Asterisk through 13.19.1, 14.x through 14.7.5, and 15.x through 15.2.1, and Certified Asterisk through 13.18-cert2. res_pjsip allows remote authenticated users to crash Asterisk (segmentation fault) by sending a number of SIP INVITE messages on a TCP or TLS connection and then suddenly closing the connection.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2018-7286 is rated High Exploit Risk (76/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 54.63%, 98th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44181 | exploit_db | edb | 2018-02-27 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2025-11-21 | 53.93% | 54.63% | +0.71% |
| 2 | 2025-11-18 | 54.63% | 53.93% | -0.71% |
| 3 | 2025-09-16 | — | 54.63% | — |
Full EPSS history (16 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 3.0 | MEDIUM |
|
2.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 4.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
|
not yet assigned | CVE-2018-7286 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-2018-7286 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2018-7286 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (asterisk), 20 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 15, needed 2, DNE 1, ignored 1, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7286 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| digium | asterisk | >= 14.0.0, <= 14.7.5 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | asterisk | >= 15.0.0, <= 15.2.1 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | asterisk | 13.19.1 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:asterisk:13.19.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| digium | certified_asterisk | <= 13.18 | cpe:2.3:a:digium:certified_asterisk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2018-005.html | Vendor Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103129 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040417 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27618 | Vendor Advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4320 | Third Party Advisory |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44181/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |