CVE-2026-45537
9.1 CRITICALpublic exploit availablePublished 2026-08-04 · Updated 2026-08-05
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- The flaw allows buffer overflow by concatenating URI components without bounds checking, leading to corruption of global data and deterministic alteration of server behavior.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation requires attacker-controlled username with a length exceeding 1024 bytes; moderate difficulty due to specific conditions.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, it can deterministically alter the server's routing behavior for subsequent messages, impacting multiple users and services.
- Prioritized remediation
- Update OpenSIPS to version 3.6.6 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.
Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.
NVD description
OpenSIPS is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation. In versions prior to 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1, the construct_uri() function concatenates multiple URI components (protocol, username, domain, port, params) into a fixed 1024-byte global BSS buffer without any bounds checking. When a routing script calls construct_uri() with an attacker-controlled username, a combined component length exceeding 1024 bytes overflows the buffer, corrupting adjacent global data with attacker-controlled content. The overflow reaches disable_503_translation, a global flag controlling SIP 503 response handling, allowing an attacker to deterministically set the flag via the URI username and alter the server's routing behavior for subsequent messages. Because the same buffer is shared with contact_builder(), the overflow also corrupts that function's data, and without a memory sanitizer the adjacent globals are silently overwritten on every request containing a long username. This issue has been fixed in versions 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-120
Public exploit & PoC references
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/commit/4d23613b65579b073784a07a65d3bf52443a4efb
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/commit/5f103effaf5f372cccffe0b138f16998eba12668
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/security/advisories/GHSA-v7h4-fwrc-c66v
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/security/advisories/GHSA-v7h4-fwrc-c66v
All references
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/commit/4d23613b65579b073784a07a65d3bf52443a4efb
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/commit/5f103effaf5f372cccffe0b138f16998eba12668
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/security/advisories/GHSA-v7h4-fwrc-c66v
- https://github.com/OpenSIPS/opensips/security/advisories/GHSA-v7h4-fwrc-c66v
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