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."
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2019-05-24T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T22:10:10.031Z

Reserved: 2019-03-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-10143

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T22:10:10.031Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-24T17:29:02.490

Modified: 2024-08-04T22:15:19.987

Link: CVE-2019-10143

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-10143 - Bugzilla