CVE-2004-0938

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

FreeRADIUS before 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) by sending an Ascend-Send-Secret attribute without the required leading packet.

Affected products

freeradius: through 1.0.1

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541574
http://www.osvdb.org/10178
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11222
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17440
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10837
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1347
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541574
http://www.osvdb.org/10178
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11222
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17440

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