ubuntu-cve-2019-10143
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-05-24 17:29
Modified
2026-05-20 14:51
Summary
Details
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."
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
7.0 (High)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"name": "freeradius",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/freeradius@3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu2?arch=source\u0026distro=resolute"
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],
"aliases": [],
"details": "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.\"",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10143",
"modified": "2026-05-20T14:51:16Z",
"published": "2019-05-24T17:29:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10143"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/pull/2666"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10143"
}
],
"related": [],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "low",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
"CVE-2019-10143"
]
}
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