CVE-2021-41105

FreeSWITCH susceptible to Denial of Service via invalid SRTP packets

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 25, 2021 at 10:05 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:07 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFreeswitchFreeswitch

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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. When handling SRTP calls, FreeSWITCH prior to version 1.10.7 is susceptible to a DoS where calls can be terminated by remote attackers. This attack can be done continuously, thus denying encrypted calls during the attack. When a media port that is handling SRTP traffic is flooded with a specially crafted SRTP packet, the call is terminated leading to denial of service. This issue was reproduced when using the SDES key exchange mechanism in a SIP environment as well as when using the DTLS key exchange mechanism in a WebRTC environment. The call disconnection occurs due to line 6331 in the source file `switch_rtp.c`, which disconnects the call when the total number of SRTP errors reach a hard-coded threshold (100). By abusing this vulnerability, an attacker is able to disconnect any ongoing calls that are using SRTP. The attack does not require authentication or any special foothold in the caller's or the callee's network. This issue is patched in version 1.10.7.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.10.7
Affected range stops below 1.10.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 1.10.7
Affected range stops below 1.10.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (3)

Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploitThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Oct/43
x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/releases/tag/v1.10.7

CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20NVD-CWE-Other

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