Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42706

Medium

Published: 05 December 2022

Published
05 December 2022
Modified
24 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0081 74.7th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42706 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Sangoma Asterisk. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 25.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Sangoma Asterisk through 16.28, 17 and 18 through 18.14, 19 through 19.6, and certified through 18.9-cert1. GetConfig, via Asterisk Manager Interface, allows a connected application to access files outside of the asterisk configuration directory, aka…

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Directory Traversal.

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 · 17.0.0 — 18.15.1 · 19.0.0 — 19.7.1
sangoma
certified asterisk
18.9 · ≤ 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-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References