FreeSWITCH 1.6.10 through 1.10.1 has a default password in event_socket.conf.xml.

published 2019-12-02 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-9112

cvss: 9.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 29.4%; EPSS 29.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits: 1; Metasploit

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-21-301-01 updated 2021-10-28 cvss 7.8

Sensormatic Electronics victor

Sensormatic Electronics, LLC, Johnson Controls Inc. victor <= 5.7
affected: vendor fix, mitigation “Disable the SIP feature in: versions prior to 5.7.1” johnsoncontrols.com

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

Timeline

2019-11-03 First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/misc/freeswitch_event_socket_cmd_exec)
2019-12-02 Published

Exploit prediction

29.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

Metasploit exploit/multi/misc/freeswitch_event_socket_cmd_exec FreeSWITCH Event Socket Command Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2019-11-03
exploit-db.com https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47698 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	9.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/47698
exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-19492
NVD CVE-2019-19492

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary