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."
CVE-2019-10143
Score 7.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.0; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.0
- EG Score
- 7.0HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 48EG Risk 48/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity70% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 26th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
May 24, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (16)
- secalert@redhathttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155361/FreeRadius-3.0.19-Logrotate-Privilege-Escalation.html
- secalert@redhathttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/14
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10143
- secalert@redhathttps://freeradius.org/security/
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6VKBZAZKJP5QKXDXRKCM2ZPZND3TFAX/
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKODLHHUOVAYENTBP4D3N25ST3Q6LJBP/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155361/FreeRadius-3.0.19-Logrotate-Privilege-Escalation.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/14
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10143
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://freeradius.org/security/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6VKBZAZKJP5QKXDXRKCM2ZPZND3TFAX/
Patch Availability(2)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | freeradius-0:3.0.13-15.el7 | 2020-09-29 | redhat |
| redhat | freeradius:3.0-8010020190614154208.16b3ab4d | 2019-11-05 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(22 across 22 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.11(1)
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Alpine:v3.12(1)
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Alpine:v3.13(1)
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Alpine:v3.14(1)
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Alpine:v3.15(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
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Alpine:v3.21(1)
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Alpine:v3.22(1)
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Alpine:v3.23(1)
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Alpine:v3.24(1)
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Alpine:v3.7(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.8(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Alpine:v3.9(1)
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| freeradius | — |
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Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| freeradius | 3.0.21+dfsg-2.2 ... 3.2.8+dfsg-1 (30 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| freeradius | 3.2.1+dfsg-4 ... 3.2.8+dfsg-1 (18 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| freeradius | — |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| freeradius | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(3)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(2)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
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Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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