PJSIP: Stack overflow handling Service-Route headers in a registration response
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
PJSIP is a free and open source multimedia communication library written in C. Prior to commit acc03b5, a stack buffer overflow exists in PJSUA when processing Service-Route headers in a registration response (update_service_route() in pjsua_acc.c). This affects applications that register using the PJSUA/PJSUA2 account API (the default registration path). The Service-Route URIs from a 2xx response to REGISTER are stored into a fixed-size array without bounding the number of headers; a registrar that returns an excessive number of Service-Route headers can write past the end of the array on the stack. The values written are internal pointers rather than arbitrary data, so the most likely impact is unexpected application termination (denial of service), though memory corruption cannot be excluded. The malicious response may come from a compromised or malicious registrar, or — over unprotected transports — a spoofed response. This issue has been patched via commit acc03b5.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- 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
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-57161
References
More pjsip vulnerabilities
- TI-2022-13076 Potential stack buffer overflow when parsing message as a STUN client CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-08599 Potential out-of-bound read/write in PJSIP CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-20051 PJSIP has use-after-free vulnerability in SRTP media transport CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-06096 Out-of-bounds read in multipart parsing in PJSIP CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2022-07661 Use after free in PJSIP CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-06095 Potential out-of-bound read during RTP/RTCP parsing in PJSIP CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-57161 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-57161 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-57161 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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