A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the safe_asterisk script included with the Asterisk toolkit package. When Asterisk is started via this script (common in SysV init or FreePBX environments), it sources all .sh files located in /etc/asterisk/startup.d/ as root, without validating ownership or permissions.


Non-root users with legitimate write access to /etc/asterisk can exploit this behaviour by placing malicious scripts in the startup.d directory, which will then execute with root privileges upon service restart.
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History

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Asterisk
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Description A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the safe_asterisk script included with the Asterisk toolkit package. When Asterisk is started via this script (common in SysV init or FreePBX environments), it sources all .sh files located in /etc/asterisk/startup.d/ as root, without validating ownership or permissions. Non-root users with legitimate write access to /etc/asterisk can exploit this behaviour by placing malicious scripts in the startup.d directory, which will then execute with root privileges upon service restart.
Title Asterisk Unsafe Shell Sourcing in safe_asterisk Leads to Local Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-427
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Gridware

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-23T04:31:02.784Z

Reserved: 2025-02-08T04:11:43.201Z

Link: CVE-2025-1131

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Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-23T05:15:35.603

Modified: 2025-09-23T05:15:35.603

Link: CVE-2025-1131

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Updated: 2025-09-23T16:03:28Z