CVE-2019-10143

Summary

CVECVE-2019-10143
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-05-24 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:02:00 UTC
Description** DISPUTED ** 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."

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-250 | CWE-266

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Application Freeradius Freeradius All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: freeradius-3.0.19-3.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: freeradius-3.0.19-3.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
FreeRadius 3.0.19 Logrotate Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
Releases MISC freeradius.org Third Party Advisory
1705340 – (CVE-2019-10143) CVE-2019-10143 freeradius: privilege escalation due to insecure logrotate configuration CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: freeradius-3.0.19-3.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: freeradius-3.0.19-3.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
su to radiusd user/group when rotating logs by cipherboy · Pull Request #2666 · FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: [AIT-SA-20191112-01] CVE-2019-10143: Privilege Escalation via Logrotate in FreeRadius FULLDISC seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2019-10143 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
1705340 – (CVE-2019-10143) CVE-2019-10143 freeradius: privilege escalation due to insecure logrotate configuration MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159656 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for freeradius:3.0 security and bug fix update (ELSA-2019-3353)
  • 377276 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for freeradius (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0148)
  • 500187 Alpine Linux Security Update for freeradius
  • 503927 Alpine Linux Security Update for freeradius
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