VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-10143

CVSS score7 HIGH
EPSS probability0.34%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-05-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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."

Weakness classification

  • CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
  • CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
  • CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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