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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2024-3596

RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify any valid Response (Access-Accept, Access-Reject, or Access-Challenge) to any other response using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authenticator signature.

Products
freeradius
Affected versions
3.2.1+dfsg-4, 3.2.1+dfsg-4+deb12u1, 3.2.10+dfsg-1, 3.2.10+dfsg-2, 3.2.2+dfsg-1~exp1, 3.2.3+dfsg-1, 3.2.3+dfsg-2, 3.2.5+dfsg-1, 3.2.5+dfsg-2, 3.2.5+dfsg-3, 3.2.6+dfsg-1, 3.2.6+dfsg-2, 3.2.6+dfsg-2~bpo12+1, 3.2.6+dfsg-3, 3.2.7+dfsg-1, 3.2.7+dfsg-1~bpo12+1, 3.2.7+dfsg-2, 3.2.8+dfsg-1
Fixed versions
3.2.5+dfsg-1
CVEs
CVE-2024-3596
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 16:52 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-3596

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Jul 2024, 12:15 UTC

RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify any valid Response (Access-Accept, Access-Reject, or Access-Challenge) to any other response using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authenticator signature.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2024-3596

freeradius

Fixed versions: Not specified

freeradius

Fixed versions: 3.2.5+dfsg-1

freeradius

Fixed versions: 3.2.5+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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