MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2004-0131

Radius vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
The rad_print_request function in logger.c for GNU Radius daemon (radiusd) before 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a UDP packet with an Acct-Status-Type attribute without a value and no Acct-Session-Id attribute, which causes a null dereference.
Affected vendor
Gnu
Affected product
Radius
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2004-03-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Gnu Radius is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-0131.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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