Security advisory

{
  "id": "c6ece1b115ce1225fd8203b637960077996b3be8b58c6de2929d3e5bd91a366f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-10143",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-10143",
    "summary": "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.\"",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-10143",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-10143",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-10143"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/freeradius/freeradius-server",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "ab4c767099f263a7cd4109bcdca80ee74210a769"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.0.19"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "release_3_0_19",
            "release_3_0_18",
            "release_3_0_17",
            "release_3_0_16",
            "release_3_0_15",
            "release_3_0_14",
            "release_3_0_13",
            "release_3_0_12",
            "release_3_0_11",
            "release_3_0_10",
            "release_3_0_9",
            "release_3_0_8",
            "release_3.0.8",
            "release_3_0_7",
            "release_3_0_6",
            "release_3_0_5",
            "release_3_0_4_rc2",
            "release_3_0_4_rc1",
            "release_3_0_4_rc0",
            "release_3_0_3",
            "release_3_0_2",
            "release_3_0_1",
            "release_3_0_0",
            "release_3_0_0_rc1",
            "branch_4_0_0",
            "release_3_0_0_rc0",
            "release_3_0_0_beta1",
            "release_3_0_0_beta0",
            "release_2_1_7",
            "release_2_1_4",
            "release_2_1_3",
            "release_2_1_2",
            "release_2_1_1",
            "release_2_1_0",
            "release_2_0_5",
            "release_2_0_4",
            "release_2_0_3",
            "release_2_0_2",
            "release_2_0_1",
            "release_2_0_0",
            "release_2_0_0_pre2",
            "release_2_0_0_pre1",
            "release_0_7_0",
            "release_0_6_0",
            "release_0_5_0",
            "release_0_4_0",
            "release_0_3_0",
            "release_0_2_0",
            "release_0_1_0",
            "first-build"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-10143.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:35.659729832Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6VKBZAZKJP5QKXDXRKCM2ZPZND3TFAX/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TKODLHHUOVAYENTBP4D3N25ST3Q6LJBP/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353",
        "https://freeradius.org/security/",
        "https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10143"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "29"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "29"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "30"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "30"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-10143",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381884,
  "published_at": "2019-05-24T17:29:02.49+00:00"
}