Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-3697

Title: Freeradius Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-3697.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Oct 07, 2010

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.83%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-3697: The wait_for_child_to_die function in main/event.c in FreeRADIUS 2.1.x before 2.1.10, in certain circumstances involving long-term database outages, does not properly handle long queue times for requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by sending many requests.

Impacted Vendors

freeradius 1

Reference Links

http://freeradius.org/press/index.html#2.1.10 http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223 http://secunia.com/advisories/41621 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/8 https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639397 http://freeradius.org/press/index.html#2.1.10 http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223 http://secunia.com/advisories/41621 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/8 https://bugs.freeradius.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639397

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-3697 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 07, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.