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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-41859: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-41859: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/17/2023
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

In freeradius, the EAP-PWD function compute_password_element() leaks information about the password which allows an attacker to substantially reduce the size of an offline dictionary attack.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-freeradius

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