CVE-2023-28096
March 15, 2023
OpenSIPS, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation, has a memory leak starting in the 2.3 branch and priot to versions 3.1.8 and 3.2.5. The memory leak was detected in the function "parse_mi_request" while performing coverage-guided fuzzing. This issue can be reproduced by sending multiple requests of the form "{"jsonrpc": "2.0","method": "log_le". This malformed message was tested against an instance of OpenSIPS via FIFO transport layer and was found to increase the memory consumption over time.
To abuse this memory leak, attackers need to reach the management interface (MI) which typically should only be exposed on trusted interfaces. In cases where the MI is exposed to the internet without authentication, abuse of this issue will lead to memory exhaustion which may affect the underlying system’s availability. No authentication is typically required to reproduce this issue. On the other hand, memory leaks may occur in other areas of OpenSIPS where the cJSON library is used for parsing JSON objects.
The issue has been fixed in versions 3.1.8 and 3.2.5.
Related Resources (3)
Do you need more information?
Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
4.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
EPSS
Base Score:
0.30