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IBM Aspera Faspex, SignalWire FreeSwitch Vulnerabilities Exploited in Attacks
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CISA has added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, indicating they are being exploited in attacks. These vulnerabilities are in IBM Aspera Faspex and SignalWire FreeSwitch. Federal agencies are being urged to patch these vulnerabilities within a short timeframe of three days. The affected products are being targeted by attackers, prompting the call for swift remediation.
Vulnerabilities mentioned
IBM Aspera Faspex 5.0.0 through 5.0.19 could allow an authorized user to craft a specific message to bypass user authorization and gain full administrative privileges.
FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to 1.11.3, sofia_presence_handle_sip_i_message() split the To user of an inbound SIP MESSAGE on a plus sign and treated the left side as a chat protocol selector. Selecting the api chat proto reached switch_api_execute(), allowing a peer whose MESSAGE was accepted to run FreeSWITCH API commands, including operating-system command sinks, with the daemon's privileges. Inbound chat is enabled on the stock internal and external profiles, and any authenticated profile account is sufficient; stock directory users without password material can also remove that barrier in affected configurations. The flaw permits configuration and credential disclosure, arbitrary call control, and command execution, and exploitation has been observed in the wild. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.3.
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