CVE-2024-3596
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…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 14.9%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 14.86% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-354, CWE-924
- Affected
- freeradius/freeradius · broadcom/brocade sannav · broadcom/fabric operating system · sonicwall/sonicos
- Source
- cret@cert.org
EPSS 14.9% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/4Mailing List
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-723487.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794185.html
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-radext-deprecating-radius/Technical Description
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2865Technical Description
- https://networkradius.com/assets/pdf/radius_and_md5_collisions.pdfThird Party Advisory
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2024-0014Third Party Advisory
- https://www.blastradius.fail/Technical Description
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/09/4Mailing List
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-radext-deprecating-radius/Technical Description
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2865Technical Description
- https://networkradius.com/assets/pdf/radius_and_md5_collisions.pdfThird Party Advisory
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2024-0014Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240822-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://today.ucsd.edu/story/computer-scientists-discover-vulnerabilities-in-a-popular-security-protocolThird Party Advisory
- https://www.blastradius.fail/Technical Description
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/456537
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-364175.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-723487.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-770770.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794185.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.