CVE-2025-1131

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-v9q8-9j8m-5xwp

Configurations

No configuration.

History

23 Sep 2025, 05:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-09-23 05:15

Updated : 2025-09-24 18:11

NVD link : CVE-2025-1131

Mitre link : CVE-2025-1131

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-1131

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-427

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

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