CVE-2019-10143
CVE-2019-10143 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence
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."
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, redhat
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Unreported
no source claims exploitation
EPSS
0%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
6.4
MEDIUM
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
PoC
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
No
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Total
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (3)
Products (3)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | CVSS 3.0 | MEDIUM | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-266
- CWE-250
References
8 on the record
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKODLHHUOVAYENTBP4D3N25ST3Q6LJBP/
vendor-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6VKBZAZKJP5QKXDXRKCM2ZPZND3TFAX/
vendor-advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353
vendor-advisory
- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Nov/14
mailing-list
- freeradius.org/security/
reference
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/155361/FreeRadius-3.0.19-Logrotate-Privilege-Escalation.html
reference
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10143
reference
- github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666
reference
Elsewhere on this site
- freeradiusevery CVE for this vendor
- fedoraprojectevery CVE for this vendor
- redhatevery CVE for this vendor
- CWE-266other pages naming this weakness
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.