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CVE-2001-0534: Lucent Radius: Command injection

CVE-2001-0534 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Lucent Radius. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Multiple buffer overflows in RADIUS daemon radiusd in (1) Merit 3.6b and (2) Lucent 2.1-2 RADIUS allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Lucent Radius: 2.1.2
• Merit Radius: 3.6b

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/898931
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2989
• http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/alerts.php