CVE-2026-116789

HIGH

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 65/100

Published: 2026-11-05 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network

AC: High

PR: None

UI: None

S: Unchanged

C: High

I: High

A: None

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, dtls_state_setup() compared a peer certificate with the SDP a=fingerprint only when FreeSWITCH was the DTLS client, not when it held the DTLS server role. An unauthenticated peer able to reach the negotiated media port could complete the DTLS-SRTP handshake with an unrelated certificate, obtain the leg's SRTP keys, decrypt and inject media, and displace the legitimate endpoint; on ICE-enabled legs the peer also needs the connectivity-check credentials from SDP, which generally requires signaling visibility or a position on its path. WebRTC and SIP DTLS-SRTP legs are affected whenever the peer selects the active role, while FreeSWITCH client-role handshakes already perform fingerprint validation. Version 1.11.2 introduces the remediation, which requires rtp_dtls_client_cert_verify_mode=fingerprint.