CVE-2023-51443

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reeSWITCH 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 version 1.10.11, when handling DTLS-SRTP for media setup, FreeSWITCH is susceptible to Denial of Service due to a race condition in the hello handshake phase of the DTLS protocol. This attack can be done continuously, thus denying new DTLS-SRTP encrypted calls during the attack. If an attacker manages to send a ClientHello DTLS message with an invalid CipherSuite (such as `TLS_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL`) to the port on the FreeSWITCH server that is expecting packets from the caller, a DTLS error is generated. This results in the media session being torn down, which is followed by teardown at signaling (SIP) level too. Abuse of this vulnerability may lead to a massive Denial of Service on vulnerable FreeSWITCH servers for calls that rely on DTLS-SRTP. To address this vulnerability, upgrade FreeSWITCH to 1.10.11 which includes the security fix. The solution implemented is to drop all packets from addresses that have not been validated by an ICE check.

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:freeswitch:freeswitch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

04 Nov 2025, 19:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • () http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176311/FreeSWITCH-1.10.10-Denial-Of-Service.html -
  • () http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/29 -

21 Nov 2024, 08:38

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176393/FreeSWITCH-Denial-Of-Service.html - Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry () http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176393/FreeSWITCH-Denial-Of-Service.html - Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
References () https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/commit/86cbda90b84ba186e508fbc7bfae469270a97d11 - Patch () https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/commit/86cbda90b84ba186e508fbc7bfae469270a97d11 - Patch
References () https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/security/advisories/GHSA-39gv-hq72-j6m6 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory () https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/security/advisories/GHSA-39gv-hq72-j6m6 - Exploit, Vendor Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.9
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5

Information

Published : 2023-12-27 17:15

Updated : 2025-11-04 19:16


NVD link : CVE-2023-51443

Mitre link : CVE-2023-51443

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-51443


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Products Affected
CWE
CWE-703

Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions