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CVE-2012-4741

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The RADIUS extension in PacketFence before 3.3.0 uses a different user name than is used for authentication for users with custom VLAN assignment extensions, which allows remote attackers to spoof user identities via the User-Name RADIUS attribute.

Affected products

• Packetfence: through 3.2.0

References

• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29126135
• http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1390
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78868
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29126135
• http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1390
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78868

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