CVE-2026-57196: Asterisk: Reflected XSS in Phone Provisioning HTTP Error Pages
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Prior to Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3, an unauthenticated attacker may use reflected cross-site scripting in phone provisioning HTTP error pages to retrieve an authorized user's AMI session cookie and impersonate that user when resphoneprov is enabled. The Asterisk HTTP web server, Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI), and AMI access via HTTP must all be enabled; each is disabled by default. The attacker must be able to connect to the HTTP server, which binds only to 127.0.0.1 by default even when enabled, and must convince the authorized user to click a malicious link. This issue is fixed in Asterisk 20.20.1, 21.12.3, 22.10.1, 23.4.1 and Certified Asterisk 20.7-cert11, 22.8-cert3.
Affected Software
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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Asteriskto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 20.20.1 - Upgrade
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Asteriskto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 21.12.3 - Upgrade
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Asteriskto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 22.10.1 - Upgrade
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Asteriskto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 23.4.1 - Upgrade
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Certified Asteriskto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 20.7-cert11 - Upgrade
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Certified Asteriskto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 22.8-cert3