CVE-2019-10143

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 High 7
Description
** DISPUTED ** 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."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-10143
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2019-05-24T17:29:02
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-12T21:15:10
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-250 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/250.html
CWE-362 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/362.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 3.0.19
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 6.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • HIGH
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155361/FreeRadius-3.0.19-Logrotate-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/14 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3984
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10143
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1705340
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10143 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://freeradius.org/security/ Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6VKBZAZKJP5QKXDXRKCM2ZPZND3TFAX/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKODLHHUOVAYENTBP4D3N25ST3Q6LJBP/
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10143
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-10143
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:11:41 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 21:17:16 2019-05-24T17:29Z 2019-05-24T17:29:02 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 21:17:16 2020-09-30T14:22:36 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 21:17:16 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 22:09:28 2023-02-02T21:18:26 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 22:09:28 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 22:09:29 ** DISPUTED ** 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." It was discovered freeradius 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. Description updated
2023-02-02 22:09:31 References updated
2023-02-12 22:10:37 2023-02-12T21:15:10 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-12 22:10:38 Weakness Enumeration update
2023-02-12 22:10:38 It was discovered freeradius 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. ** DISPUTED ** 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." Description updated