{"id":"CVE-2019-13456","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-13456","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:44:06.728Z","title":"This leaks information that an attacker can use to recover the password of any user.","description":"In FreeRADIUS 3.0 through 3.0.19, on average 1 in every 2048 EAP-pwd handshakes fails because the password element cannot be found within 10 iterations of the hunting and pecking loop. This leaks information that an attacker can use to recover the password of any user. This information leakage is similar to the \"Dragonblood\" attack and CVE-2019-9494.","published":"2019-12-03T20:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:16:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-203"],"affected":["freeradius/freeradius","redhat/enterprise linux","opensuse/leap"],"epss":{"score":0.01798,"percentile":0.78345,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.80%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00039.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737663","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://freeradius.org/security/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/3ea2a5a026e73d81cd9a3e9bbd4300c433004bfa","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wpa3.mathyvanhoef.com","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00039.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737663","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://freeradius.org/security/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/3ea2a5a026e73d81cd9a3e9bbd4300c433004bfa","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wpa3.mathyvanhoef.com","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13456","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}