vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-41859: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 17, 2023
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

alpine-linux-upgrade-freeradius
Title
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