RHEL 7 : freeradius (RHSA-2019:1131)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124752

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for freeradius.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1131 advisory.

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: eap-pwd: authentication bypass via an invalid curve attack (CVE-2019-11235)

* freeradius: eap-pwd: fake authentication using reflection (CVE-2019-11234)

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL freeradius package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:1131.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?adf11586

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1131

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695748

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1695783

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124752

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-1131.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2019-11235

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11234, CVE-2019-11235

CWE: 287, 345

RHSA: 2019:1131