CVE-2022-41861

freeradius: Crash on invalid abinary data

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A flaw was found in freeradius. A malicious RADIUS client or home server can send a malformed abinary attribute which can cause the server to crash.

It was discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly handled multiple EAP-pwd handshakes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Shane Guan discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly handled memory when checking unknown SIM option sent by EAP-SIM supplicant. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service on the server. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-09-30 CVE Reserved
2023-01-04 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://freeradius.org/security	2023-07-10
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/0ec2b39d260e	2023-07-10

URL	Date	SRC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41861	2023-05-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078487	2023-05-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Freeradius Search vendor "Freeradius"		Freeradius Search vendor "Freeradius" for product "Freeradius"				<= 3.0.25 Search vendor "Freeradius" for product "Freeradius" and version " <= 3.0.25"		-		Affected