freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary…
Priority LOW 32CWE-59Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- — Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Complete · Complete · Complete
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
freeradius-dialupadmin in freeradius 2.0.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files in (1) backup_radacct, (2) clean_radacct, (3) monthly_tot_stats, (4) tot_stats, and (5) truncate_radacct.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.00367 30th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 2.0.4 | Vulnerable | freeradius |
- cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.4 Vulnerable ·freeradius
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2008-4474
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-65g9-fp5g-xmh5
References
Advisory 1
Other 6
- [oss-security] 20081030 CVE requests: tempfile issues for aview, mgetty, openoffice, crossfire
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235770
- http://uvw.ru/report.lenny.txt
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496389
- [debian-devel] 20080811 Possible mass bug filing: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages
- http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbu/security/debiantemp/freeradius-dialupadmin
More Freeradius vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-07466 Race condition in freeradius CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0
- TI-2024-03351 RADIUS Protocol under RFC2865 is vulnerable to forgery attacks. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.0
- TI-2019-08409 FreeRADIUS before 3.0.19 does not prevent use of reflection for authentication spoofing… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2017-08061 An FR-GV-202 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "Write overflow in… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2017-08066 An FR-GV-301 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Write overflow in… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2017-06599 The TLS session cache in FreeRADIUS 2.1.1 through 2.1.7, 3.0.x before 3.0.14, 3.1.x… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2008-4474 · CVE Program
- CVE-2008-4474 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-65g9-fp5g-xmh5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2008-4474 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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