| Name | CVE-2024-3596 |
| Description | RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify any valid Response (Access-Accept, Access-Reject, or Access-Challenge) to any other response using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authenticator signature. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| freeradius (PTS) | bullseye | 3.0.21+dfsg-2.2+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 3.2.1+dfsg-4+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 3.2.5+dfsg-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| freeradius | source | (unstable) | 3.2.5+dfsg-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - freeradius <no-dsa> (Minor issue; can be fixed via point release rebasing to 3.2.5, cf. #1076022)
[bullseye] - freeradius <no-dsa> (Minor issue; intrusive to backport)
https://www.blastradius.fail/
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/456537
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/4
https://blog.cloudflare.com/radius-udp-vulnerable-md5-attack/
CVE is for the RADIUS Protocol issue under RFC 2865, but track for time beeing
sources which add mitigations for the "BlastRADIUS protocol vulnerability".