6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2019-10143

Published: 24/05/2019 Updated: 11/04/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

It exists freeradius up to and including version 3.0.19 does not correctly configure logrotate, allowing a local attacker who already has control of the radiusd user to escalate his privileges to root, by tricking logrotate into writing a radiusd-writable file to a directory normally inaccessible by the radiusd user. NOTE: the upstream software maintainer has stated "there is simply no way for anyone to gain privileges through this alleged issue."

Vulnerability Trend

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freeradius freeradius

fedoraproject fedora 29

fedoraproject fedora 30

redhat enterprise linux 8.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #929466 freeradius: CVE-2019-10143: privilege escalation due to insecure logration Package: src:freeradius; Maintainer for src:freeradius is Debian FreeRADIUS Packaging Team <pkg-freeradius-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 2 ...
Synopsis Moderate: freeradius security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CV ...
Synopsis Moderate: freeradius:30 security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for the freeradius:30 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability ...
It was discovered freeradius does not correctly configure logrotate, allowing a local attacker who already has control of the radiusd user to escalate his privileges to root, by tricking logrotate into writing a radiusd-writable file to a directory normally inaccessible by the radiusd user (CVE-2019-10143) An information leak was discovered in the ...

Exploits

FreeRadius versions 3019 and below suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability via insecure logrotate use ...

Mailing Lists

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