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High RLSA-2024:4935 1 CVE

Important: freeradius security update

Published Aug 1, 2024 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server, designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network.

Security Fix(es):

* freeradius: forgery attack (CVE-2024-3596)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 freeradius 0:3.0.21-40.el9_4

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.0
    CVE-2024-3596 Public exploit EPSS 15%

    RADIUS Protocol under RFC2865 is vulnerable to forgery attacks.

    RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify any valid Response (Access-Accept, Access-Reject, or Access-Challenge) to any other response using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authen…

    IETF RFC krb5 freeradius Debian Ubuntu Alpine

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2263240