OpenSIPS: Denial of service in presence.handle_publish() from unchecked Content-Type state
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
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
Remediation
- Fix · CNA opensips (OpenSIPS) Fixed in 3.6.6, 4.0.0-rc1
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-45084
- 2026-10-13 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
More OpenSIPS vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-45084 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-45084 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-45084 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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