CVE-2019-10143 (GCVE-0-2019-10143)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-05-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:10 Disputed
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Summary
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."
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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freeradius freeradius Affected: affects <= 3.0.19
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