CVE-2019-10143

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    CVE-2019-10143

    Published: 24 May 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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."

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6VKBZAZKJP5QKXDXRKCM2ZPZND3TFAX/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKODLHHUOVAYENTBP4D3N25ST3Q6LJBP/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353, https://freeradius.org/security/, https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10143, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155361/FreeRadius-3.0.19-Logrotate-Privilege-Escalation.html, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/14

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    release_3_0_19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High