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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| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2019-2181 | 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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T22:10:10.031Z
Reserved: 2019-03-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-10143
Updated: 2024-08-04T22:10:10.031Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-05-24T17:29:02.490
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:18:30.510
Link: CVE-2019-10143
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