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alsa-2024:4935

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2024-07-31 00:00

Modified

2024-08-06 20:53

Summary

Important: freeradius security update

Details

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server, designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network.

Security Fix(es):

freeradius: forgery attack (CVE-2024-3596)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

URL

Type

	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4935	ADVISORY
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3596	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2263240	REPORT
	https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-4935.html	ADVISORY

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CVE-2024-3596 (GCVE-0-2024-3596)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-09 12:02 – Updated: 2025-11-04 17:20

Title

RADIUS Protocol under RFC2865 is vulnerable to forgery attacks.

Summary

RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify any valid Response (Access-Accept, Access-Reject, or Access-Challenge) to any other response using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authenticator signature.

Severity ?

9 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Assigner

certcc

References

URL

Tags

	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2865
	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-radex…
	https://networkradius.com/assets/pdf/radius_and_m…
	https://www.blastradius.fail/
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/4
	https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SN…
	https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/…	vendor-advisory
	https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	IETF	RFC	Affected: 2865

Credits

Thanks to Sharon Goldberg, Miro Haller, Nadia Heninger, Mike Milano, Dan Shumow, Marc Stevens, and Adam Suhl who researched and reported this vulnerability

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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