Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-9542

RCE

Title: Freeradius Pam Radius RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-9542.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Feb 24, 2020

Modified Date Nov 21, 2024

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.89%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-9542: add_password in pam_radius_auth.c in pam_radius 1.4.0 does not correctly check the length of the input password, and is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow during memcpy(). An attacker could send a crafted password to an application (loading the pam_radius library) and crash it. Arbitrary code execution might be possible, depending on the application, C library, compiler, and other factors.

Impacted Vendors

freeradius 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-9542 https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/pam_radius/commit/01173ec2426627dbb1e0d96c06c3ffa0b14d36d0 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00023.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00000.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-2/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-9542 https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/pam_radius/commit/01173ec2426627dbb1e0d96c06c3ffa0b14d36d0 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00023.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00000.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-2/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-9542 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 24, 2020 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.