CentOS 7 : freeradius (CESA-2017:1581)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 101119

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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) :

* An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way the EAP module in FreeRADIUS handled TLS session resumption. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the inner authentication check in FreeRADIUS by resuming an older unauthenticated TLS session. (CVE-2017-9148)

Solution

Update the affected freeradius packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 101119

File Name: centos_RHSA-2017-1581.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 6/30/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9148

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9148

RHSA: 2017:1581

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