Asterisk Project Security Advisory - AST-2012-004

          Product         Asterisk                                            
          Summary         Asterisk Manager User Unauthorized Shell Access     
     Nature of Advisory   Permission Escalation                               
       Susceptibility     Remote Authenticated Sessions                       
          Severity        Minor                                               
       Exploits Known     No                                                  
        Reported On       February 23, 2011                                   
        Reported By       David Woolley                                       
         Posted On        April 23, 2012                                      
      Last Updated On     April 23, 2012                                      
      Advisory Contact    Jonathan Rose < jrose AT digium DOT com >           
          CVE Name        

    Description  A user of the Asterisk Manager Interface can bypass a        
                 security check and execute shell commands when they lack     
                 permission to do so. Under normal conditions, a user should  
                 only be able to run shell commands if that user has System   
                 class authorization. Users could bypass this restriction by  
                 using the MixMonitor application with the originate action   
                 or by using either the GetVar or Status manager actions in   
                 combination with the SHELL and EVAL functions. The patch     
                 adds checks in each affected action to verify if a user has  
                 System class authorization. If the user does not have those  
                 authorizations, Asterisk rejects the action if it detects    
                 the use of any functions or applications that run system     
                 commands.                                                    

    Resolution  Asterisk now performs checks against manager commands that    
                cause these behaviors for each of the affected actions.       

                               Affected Versions
                 Product               Release Series  
          Asterisk Open Source            1.6.2.x      All versions           
          Asterisk Open Source             1.8.x       All versions           
          Asterisk Open Source              10.x       All versions           
        Asterisk Business Edition          C.3.x       All versions           

                                  Corrected In
                  Product                              Release                
           Asterisk Open Source              1.6.2.24, 1.8.11.1, 10.3.1       
         Asterisk Business Edition                     C.3.7.4                

                                     Patches                          
                                SVN URL                               Revision 
   http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-004-1.6.2.diff v1.6.2   
   http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-004-1.8.diff   v1.8     
   http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/security/AST-2012-004-10.diff    v10      

       Links     https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-17465       

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                                Revision History
          Date                  Editor                 Revisions Made         
    04/23/2012               Jonathan Rose             Initial Release              

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