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."
Published: 2019-05-24
Score: 7.0 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-2181 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."
History

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Fedoraproject Fedora
Freeradius Freeradius
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T22:10:10.031Z

Reserved: 2019-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-10143

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T22:10:10.031Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-24T17:29:02.490

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:18:30.510

Link: CVE-2019-10143

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-10143 - Bugzilla

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