CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-57166

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.44%

37th percentile - higher than 37% of all known CVEs

Summary

PJSIP before commit 4472a31 has a stack buffer overflow in the PJLIB-UTIL telnet CLI front-end when rendering feedback for an entered command line. An overly long command line can overflow fixed-size buffers, potentially causing application termination. Only applications with the telnet CLI front-end enabled are affected.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with access to the unauthenticated telnet CLI can cause application termination (denial of service). Since the CLI already requires no authentication, the additional impact is limited.

Recommendation

Update PJSIP to a version containing commit 4472a31, or disable the telnet CLI front-end if it is not needed.

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Original NVD description (English source)

PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C. Prior to commit 4472a31, a stack buffer overflow exists in the PJLIB-UTIL telnet CLI front-end when rendering feedback for an entered command line. Several command-line handling paths write an attacker-influenced amount of data into fixed-size buffers without sufficient bounds checking, so a long command line can overflow them. This affects only applications that enable the telnet CLI front-end (e.g. pj_cli_telnet_create() / --cli-telnet-port). The telnet CLI is an interactive administration interface with no authentication, so any client able to reach it can already issue arbitrary CLI commands. A malformed or overly long command line can overflow a fixed-size stack buffer while rendering command-line feedback, which may lead to application termination. Because reaching this code already requires access to the unauthenticated CLI, the impact beyond that existing access is limited. Applications that do not enable the telnet CLI front-end are not affected. This issue has been patched via commit 4472a31.

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