Description
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, mod_event_socket used an unauthenticated Content-Length value directly as the allocation size for an Event Socket message body. Negative or extremely large values could overflow the terminator calculation or force an allocation failure through a helper that aborts the FreeSWITCH process. The header is parsed before the Event Socket password, so any host admitted by apply-inbound-acl can trigger termination with its first packet; the default loopback ACL limits ordinary installations to local clients. The outbound socket dialplan path is also affected when FreeSWITCH connects to a hostile application server, and process termination drops every active call until the service is restarted. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.
Published: 2026-11-05
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Signalwire
Signalwire freeswitch
Vendors & Products Signalwire
Signalwire freeswitch

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description 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, mod_event_socket used an unauthenticated Content-Length value directly as the allocation size for an Event Socket message body. Negative or extremely large values could overflow the terminator calculation or force an allocation failure through a helper that aborts the FreeSWITCH process. The header is parsed before the Event Socket password, so any host admitted by apply-inbound-acl can trigger termination with its first packet; the default loopback ACL limits ordinary installations to local clients. The outbound socket dialplan path is also affected when FreeSWITCH connects to a hostile application server, and process termination drops every active call until the service is restarted. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.
Title FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication process termination in the Event Socket via an unbounded Content-Length
Weaknesses CWE-190
CWE-789
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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Signalwire Freeswitch
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-05T21:12:35.969Z

Reserved: 2026-10-26T21:53:35.167Z

Link: CVE-2026-116787

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-05T20:17:46.073

Modified: 2026-11-05T22:38:13.080

Link: CVE-2026-116787

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-05T20:45:07Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-190

    Integer Overflow or Wraparound

  • CWE-789

    Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value