diff --git a/package/asterisk/Config.in b/package/asterisk/Config.in
index 71c741acfd..3db6e5375a 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/Config.in
+++ b/package/asterisk/Config.in
@@ -10,10 +10,11 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_ASTERISK
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCURL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBEDIT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBILBC
-	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBJWT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBPJSIP
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXCRYPT if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBXML2
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL # bundled libjwt
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL_FORCE_LIBOPENSSL # bundled libjwt
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_SQLITE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX_LIBUUID
diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash b/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
index c09a5bc183..26175667c3 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.hash
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ sha256  8a94650b6f348af1f1c9cce7ed3585d280f3a31b0d3820084a42b03712df95d5  asteri
 
 # Locally computed
 sha256  58bb83cec4d431f48d006e455d821668450f8cf6b6c95f090def47062fa3a60c  pjproject-2.15.1.tar.bz2
+sha256  6775095bcd417d375faddc1f17cdd7706ad8aa9b9b02404990c4b0ee218ee379  libjwt-1.15.3.tar.gz
+
 # sha1 from: http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/releases
 # sha256 locally computed
 sha1  721c512feaea102700d5bdce952fdc0bb29dc640  asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-1.6.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
index 0d40ebf2b4..9a071fb8e0 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ ASTERISK_SITE = $(call github,asterisk,asterisk,$(ASTERISK_VERSION))
 # segfaults. The reason behind this is unclear.
 # https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/issues/671
 ASTERISK_PJSIP_URL = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asterisk/third-party/master/pjproject/2.15.1/
+ASTERISK_LIBJWT_URL = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asterisk/third-party/master/libjwt/1.15.3/
 ASTERISK_SOUNDS_BASE_URL = http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/releases
 ASTERISK_EXTRA_DOWNLOADS = \
 	$(ASTERISK_SOUNDS_BASE_URL)/asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-1.6.1.tar.gz \
 	$(ASTERISK_SOUNDS_BASE_URL)/asterisk-moh-opsound-wav-2.03.tar.gz \
-	$(ASTERISK_PJSIP_URL)/pjproject-2.15.1.tar.bz2
+	$(ASTERISK_PJSIP_URL)/pjproject-2.15.1.tar.bz2 \
+	$(ASTERISK_LIBJWT_URL)/libjwt-1.15.3.tar.gz
 
 ASTERISK_LICENSE = GPL-2.0, BSD-3-Clause (SHA1, resample), BSD-4-Clause (db1-ast)
 ASTERISK_LICENSE_FILES = \
@@ -39,7 +41,6 @@ ASTERISK_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	jansson \
 	libcurl \
 	libedit \
-	libjwt \
 	libpjsip \
 	libxml2 \
 	sqlite \
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ ASTERISK_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--with-jansson \
 	--with-libcurl \
 	--with-ilbc \
-	--with-libjwt="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" \
+	--with-libjwt-bundled \
 	--with-libxml2 \
 	--with-libedit="$(STAGING_DIR)/usr" \
 	--with-pjproject-bundled \