Authentication bypass in FreeRADIUS - CVE-2017-9148

 

Authentication bypass in FreeRADIUS - CVE-2017-9148

Published: May 30, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6798
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9148
CWE-ID: CWE-592
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: FreeRADIUS Server Project
Affected software:
FreeRADIUS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication on the target system.

The weakness exists due to failure when preventing resumption of an unauthenticated session by TLS session cache. A remote attacker can use PEAP or TTLS to bypass authentication and cause the target server to issue an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in unauthorized access to the system.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9148

Update to version 3.0.14.

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