description: 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."
problem types: CWE-266
affected:
{
vendor: freeradius
product: freeradius
versions:
version: affects <= 3.0.19, status: affected
}
metrics:
cvssV3_0: [
version: 3.0
vectorString: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
attackVector: LOCAL
attackComplexity: HIGH
privilegesRequired: HIGH
userInteraction: NONE
scope: UNCHANGED
confidentialityImpact: HIGH
integrityImpact: HIGH
availabilityImpact: HIGH
baseScore: 6.4
baseSeverity: MEDIUM
]