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TI-2026-32931 Aliases CVE-2026-45084

OpenSIPS: Denial of service in presence.handle_publish() from unchecked Content-Type state

Priority HIGH 77CWE-476Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-476.

Summary

OpenSIPS is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation. Versions 3.4.0 through 3.6.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the presence module. When the presence module's handle_publish() function processes a SIP PUBLISH request with an Event: presence header and a message body while the configuration option enable_sphere_check=1 is set, it invokes the get_content_type() macro without first calling parse_content_type_hdr(), causing it to dereference uninitialized or NULL Content-Type parsing state and crash. If a Content-Type header is present but unparsed, msg->content_type->parsed is NULL and is dereferenced as a content_t pointer; if the request lacks a Content-Type header entirely, msg->content_type itself is NULL, and both cases lead to a crash. A remote attacker can therefore cause a denial of service against an affected instance with a single PUBLISH request over UDP or TCP, using either a valid Content-Type: application/pidf+xml request or one with the header removed, and the vulnerable code path itself does not enforce authentication (though a deployment's routing configuration may require it before this route is reached). The issue has been fixed in version 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00655 51st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed opensips (OpenSIPS): 3.6.6, 4.0.0-rc1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
OpenSIPSopensips3.4.0 to before 3.6.6; 4.0.0-beta to before 4.0.0-rc13.6.6, 4.0.0-rc1Patch availableCNA
  • opensips VendorOpenSIPS Affected 3.4.0 to before 3.6.6; 4.0.0-beta to before 4.0.0-rc1 Fixed in 3.6.6, 4.0.0-rc1 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:opensips:opensips:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——OpenSIPS
  • cpe:2.3:a:opensips:opensips:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·OpenSIPS

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA opensips (OpenSIPS) Fixed in 3.6.6, 4.0.0-rc1

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-45084
  2. 2026-10-13 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile

References

  • TI-2026-33290 OpenSIPS: Stack Buffer Overflow in sip_to_json() Header Name Copy CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-33289 OpenSIPS: Global Buffer Overflow in construct_uri CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-32940 OpenSIPS: Buffer Overflow in Base64 Encode Transformation CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-34055 OpenSIPS: Denial of Service in SDP bandwidth parsing via QoS SDP cloning CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-33544 OpenSIPS: Denial of Service in watcherinfo XML generation from oversized watcher URI CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-32942 OpenSIPS: SIP Message Smuggling via TCP Content-Length Integer Overflow CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
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