CVE-2022-41859 (GCVE-0-2022-41859)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-17 00:00
Modified
2025-04-07 16:40
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
In freeradius, the EAP-PWD function compute_password_element() leaks information about the password which allows an attacker to substantially reduce the size of an offline dictionary attack.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://freeradius.org/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/9e5e8f2fPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://freeradius.org/security/Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/9e5e8f2fPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a freeradius Version: unknown
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