Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-116569

FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication out-of-bounds write in MSRP message body parsing

publishedCWE-191CWE-787

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to 1.11.2, msrp_parse_buffer() subtracted delimiter framing from a peer-controlled short segment whose MSRP byte range ended in * without first proving the segment was long enough. The unsigned result wrapped near SIZE_MAX and reached switch_msrp_msg_set_payload() as both an allocation size and memcpy length, while related pointer arithmetic could read before the receive buffer. The listener is disabled by default in msrp.conf.xml, but any deployment enabling an MSRP TCP or TLS port parses this framing before authentication. An unauthenticated network peer can corrupt memory and crash FreeSWITCH, dropping all active calls, although remote code execution has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.

Technical severity7.5 highCVSS 3.1 · CNA: GitHub_M
Published2026-11-05Source updated 2026-11-09
Collected2026-11-104 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

Fix

FreeSWITCH (c): GitHub reports patched versions >= 1.11.2. Check the advisory for the affected release branch.

Source: GitHub GHSA-m8xv-crhj-3rf7

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
freeswitch
signalwire
< 1.11.2 (affected) CNA: GitHub_M
FreeSWITCH

FreeSWITCH
c
<= 1.11.1 (affected, GitHub advisory range) GitHub GHSA-m8xv-crhj-3rf7

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 7.5
high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCNA: GitHub_M
3.1 / 7.5
high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD: [email protected]

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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