RHEL 7 : freeradius (RHSA-2024:4911)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 204864

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for freeradius.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4911 advisory.

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 this issue 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-2024:4911.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 204864

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4911.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/31/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-3596

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 7.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-utils, 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: 7/30/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3596

CWE: 924

RHSA: 2024:4911

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