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FKIE_CVE-2022-41859

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-01-17 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:03

Severity

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	https://freeradius.org/security/	Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/9e5e8f2f	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://freeradius.org/security/	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/9e5e8f2f	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/06/msg00030.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	freeradius	freeradius	*

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-17 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:27

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 · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-07 16:40 UTC

CWE

CWE-200

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://freeradius.org/security/
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/c…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	freeradius	Affected: unknown

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