Alpine: freeradius: security update to 3.0.17-r6

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 404490

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 404490

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10143

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10143

Detections

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