Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42705

Medium

Published: 05 December 2022

Published
05 December 2022
Modified
24 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0152 81.6th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42705 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Sangoma Asterisk. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A use-after-free in res_pjsip_pubsub.c in Sangoma Asterisk 16.28, 18.14, 19.6, and certified/18.9-cert2 may allow a remote authenticated attacker to crash Asterisk (denial of service) by performing activity on a subscription via a reliable transport at the same time that Asterisk…

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is also performing activity on that subscription.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

sangoma
asterisk
20.0.0 · 16.0.0 — 16.29.1 · 18.14.0 — 18.15.1 · 19.6.0 — 19.7.1
sangoma
certified asterisk
18.9

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References