PT-2012-5567 · Inverse · Packetfence

Rich Graves · Published 2012-08-31 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-4741

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PacketFence versions prior to 3.3.0

Description The issue concerns the RADIUS extension in PacketFence, where it uses a different user name than the one used for authentication for users with custom VLAN assignment extensions. This allows remote attackers to spoof user identities via the User-Name RADIUS attribute.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.3.0, update to version 3.3.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Authentication

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-287

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4741

Affected Products

Packetfence

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4741 · Security Note
• http://packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1390 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29126135 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78868 · Note