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CVE-2019-10143

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CVE-2019-10143

Published: May 24, 2019

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

6.4

MEDIUM

Description

It was discovered 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."

VendorProductVersions

freeradius

freeradius

affected
affects <= 3.0.19

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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