CVE-2026-45809

OpenSIPS: Denial of Service in watcherinfo XML generation from oversized watcher URI

HIGH
8.7
CVSS Score
Published: August 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
Updated: September 8, 2026 at 08:59 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenSIPS

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Severity
HIGH8.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
PoC

Description

OpenSIPS is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server implementation. Versions prior to 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the watcherinfo generation functionality. An attacker can create an oversized watcher entry by sending a SUBSCRIBE Event: presence request with a long From URI, and then trigger presence.winfo watcherinfo XML generation for the same presentity. OpenSIPS copies the stored watcher URI into a fixed-size stack buffer, overflowing it and crashing the process. A remote attacker can crash an OpenSIPS worker in deployments that expose handle_subscribe() and allow watcherinfo (presence.winfo) generation. The issue is configuration-dependent because the presence and presence_xml modules must be loaded and SUBSCRIBE routing must be reachable. This issue has been fixed in versions 3.6.6 and 4.0.0-rc1.

Affected

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

v < 3.6.6v < 4.0.0-rc1
Affected range stops below 3.6.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 4.0.0-rc1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCPoCAutomatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.7HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-121

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