ubuntu-cve-2025-1131
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
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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"1:13.18.3~dfsg-1ubuntu2",
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"aliases": [],
"details": "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.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-1131",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:53:16Z",
"published": "2025-09-23T05:15:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-1131"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1131"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/security/advisories/GHSA-v9q8-9j8m-5xwp"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/f97361952023625e8dd49ca03454777fad19fedb"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/commit/7ba06dc6ee5efd4edfe79690ad8d61a33b92ce3d"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "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",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
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{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
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}
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