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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2011-2536

Medium
5/10

Summary

chan_sip.c in the SIP channel driver in Asterisk Open Source 1.4.x before 1.4.41.2, 1.6.2.x before 1.6.2.18.2, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4.4, and Asterisk Business Edition C.3.x before C.3.7.3, disregards the alwaysauthreject option and generates different responses for invalid SIP requests depending on whether the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate account names via a series of requests.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published