CVE-2012-4741 (GCVE-0-2012-4741)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-31 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:42
VLAI
Summary
The RADIUS extension in PacketFence before 3.3.0 uses a different user name than is used for authentication for users with custom VLAN assignment extensions, which allows remote attackers to spoof user identities via the User-Name RADIUS attribute.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-04-13 00:00
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