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RHEL 8 : freeradius:3.0 (RHSA-2020:1672)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 136048

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1672 advisory.

 - freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations (CVE-2019-13456)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13456

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1672

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1737663

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 136048

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1672.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2020

Updated: 3/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13456

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.4, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-rest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-utils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13456

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2020:1672