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CVE-2003-0967: freeradius

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2003:386DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0967
Published 02-12-2003Last modified 08-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2003-0967 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in freeradius. EPSS estimates a 4.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.7% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.75%
0%100%
Low · +0.12 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1exploit-database

Timeline

  1. 02-12-2003
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

rad_decode in FreeRADIUS 0.9.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a short RADIUS string attribute with a tag, which causes memcpy to be called with a -1 length argument, as demonstrated using the Tunnel-Password attribute.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

4.75%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.12 pp

From 4.64% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
4.75%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • exploit-databasedoslinuxVerified

    FreeRadius 0.x/1.1.x - Tag Field Heap Corruption

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Redhat2 products
  • freeradius< 0:0.9.3-1
  • freeradius-debuginfo< 0:0.9.3-1
Debian1 product
  • freeradius< 0.9.2-4
Freeradius1 product

3 vendors · 4 products

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