Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-2015

Title: Freeradius RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-2015.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Nov 02, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-2015: Stack-based buffer overflow in the normify function in the rlm_pap module (modules/rlm_pap/rlm_pap.c) in FreeRADIUS 2.x, possibly 2.2.3 and earlier, and 3.x, possibly 3.0.1 and earlier, might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long password hash, as demonstrated by an SSHA hash.

Impacted Vendors

freeradius 1

Reference Links

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2014-February/000610.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2014-February/000612.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2014-February/000616.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1287.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2122-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65581 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066761 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2014-February/000610.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2014-February/000612.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2014-February/000616.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1287.html http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2122-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/3 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65581 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066761

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-2015 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 02, 2014 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:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.