Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting freeradius/freeradius-server package, versions [,2.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREERADIUSFREERADIUSSERVER-2365111
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Mar 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Mar 2013

CVE-2011-4966  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-255  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freeradius/freeradius-server to version 2.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials modules/rlm_unix/rlm_unix.c in FreeRADIUS before 2.2.0, when unix mode is enabled for user authentication, does not properly check the password expiration in /etc/shadow, which allows remote authenticated users to authenticate using an expired password.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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