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CentOS 8 : freeradius:3.0 (CESA-2019:1142)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 145583

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:1142 advisory.

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

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

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1142

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 145583

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2019-1142.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/29/2021

Updated: 2/8/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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:centos:centos:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-postgresql, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-rest, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-krb5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

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

RHSA: 2019:1142