CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4741
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- 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 configurations
• packetfence packetfence (<= 3.2.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29126135 sourceforge.net
- http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1390 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78868 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29126135 sourceforge.net
- http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1390 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78868 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com