CVE-2019-13456
freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 3, 2019
Updated · November 22, 2025
Description
An information leak was discovered in the implementation of EAP-pwd in freeradius. An attacker could initiate several EAP-pwd handshakes to leak information, which can then be used to recover the user's WiFi password by performing dictionary and brute-force attacks.
Statement
This issue did not affect the versions of freeradius as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and 6 as they did not include support for EAP-pwd.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor