CVE-2019-13456

Summary

CVECVE-2019-13456
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-12-03 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-01 20:06:00 UTC
DescriptionIn FreeRADIUS 3.0 through 3.0.19, on average 1 in every 2048 EAP-pwd handshakes fails because the password element cannot be found within 10 iterations of the hunting and pecking loop. This leaks information that an attacker can use to recover the password of any user. This information leakage is similar to the "Dragonblood" attack and CVE-2019-9494.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freeradius Freeradius All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0553-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Releases MISC freeradius.org Vendor Advisory
EAP-pwd: fix side-channel leak where 1 in 2018 handshakes fail · FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server@3ea2a5a · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Dragonblood: Analysing WPA3's Dragonfly Handshake MISC wpa3.mathyvanhoef.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
1737663 – (CVE-2019-13456) CVE-2019-13456 freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159666 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for freeradius:3.0 (ELSA-2020-1672)
  • 377276 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for freeradius (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0148)
  • 750693 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for freeradius-server (SUSE-SU-2020:2391-1)
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