freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1) backup_radacct, (2) clean_radacct, (3) monthly_tot_stats, (4) tot_stats, and (5) truncate_radacct.

The Rocky Linux 8.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ ciqsa-2026_0044 advisory.

    This advisory aggregates security fixes for the freeradius SRPM in CIQ LTS 8.6. It addresses 15 CVEs:
    CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10983, CVE-2017-10986, CVE-2022-41859, CVE-2014-2015, and 10 more.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Rocky Linux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ ciqsa-2026_0415 advisory.

    This advisory aggregates security fixes for the freeradius SRPM in CIQ LTS 9.2. It addresses 13 CVEs:
    CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10983, CVE-2017-10986, CVE-2014-2015, CVE-2014-0160, and 8 more.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update fixes a possible symlink attack in the script freeradius-dialupadmin. (CVE-2008-4474)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
359346	Rocky Linux 8.6 [CIQ] Security Update: freeradius / freeradius-debuginfo / freeradius-debugsource / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ciqsa-2026_0044)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
354196	Rocky Linux 9.2 [CIQ] Security Update: freeradius / freeradius-debuginfo / freeradius-debugsource / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ciqsa-2026_0415)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
39963	openSUSE Security Update : freeradius-server (freeradius-server-248)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
34438	openSUSE 10 Security Update : freeradius (freeradius-5685)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high

Detections

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CVE-2008-4474

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Tenable Plugins

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