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CVE-2015-8762

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The EAP-PWD module in FreeRADIUS 3.0 through 3.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) via a zero-length EAP-PWD packet.

Affected products

• freeradius: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+3)

References

• http://freeradius.org/security.html#eap-pwd-2015
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/7
• http://freeradius.org/security.html#eap-pwd-2015
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/08/7

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