Improper Input Validation Affecting freeradius/freeradius-server package, versions [3.0.0,3.0.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.22% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERADIUSFREERADIUSSERVER-2365090
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Mar 2020

CVE-2019-17185  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freeradius/freeradius-server to version 3.0.20 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. In FreeRADIUS 3.0.x before 3.0.20, the EAP-pwd module used a global OpenSSL BN_CTX instance to handle all handshakes. This mean multiple threads use the same BN_CTX instance concurrently, resulting in crashes when concurrent EAP-pwd handshakes are initiated. This can be abused by an adversary as a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1