An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command issue was discovered in Digium Asterisk GUI 2.1.0 and prior.

published 2017-09-26 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-5516

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 6.4%; EPSS 6.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits: 0; none known

An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command issue was discovered in Digium Asterisk GUI 2.1.0 and prior. An OS command injection vulnerability has been identified that may allow the execution of arbitrary code on the system through the inclusion of OS commands in the URL request of the program.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-17-264-03 updated 2017-09-21 cvss 8.8

Digium Asterisk GUI

Digium Asterisk GUI <= 2.1.0
affected: vendor fix

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	9.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

n/a Digium Asterisk GUI

Classification

Weakness

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov /advisories/ICSA-17-264-03
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
securityfocus.com /bid/100950
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-14001
NVD CVE-2017-14001

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Summary