CVE-2022-41859 (GCVE-0-2022-41859)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-17 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:27
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a freeradius Affected: unknown
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