Bug 1737663 (CVE-2019-13456) - CVE-2019-13456 freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations
Summary: CVE-2019-13456 freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when nee...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-13456
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1737664 1751796 1751797 1751798
Blocks: 1740725
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-08-06 01:38 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:32 UTC (History)
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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.
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:33:36 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1672 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:38:53 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3984 0 None None None 2020-09-29 20:20:31 UTC

Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-08-06 01:38:06 UTC 
A flaw was found 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.

References:

https://wpa3.mathyvanhoef.com/#new
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-08-06 01:38:24 UTC 
Created freeradius tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1737664]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-09-12 11:24:31 UTC 
Upstream patch:
https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/3ea2a5a026e73d81cd9a3e9bbd4300c433004bfa
Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2019-09-12 15:08:51 UTC 
EAP-PWD support was first added in freeradius 3.0.0, so earlier versions as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and earlier are not affected.
Comment 4 Riccardo Schirone 2019-09-12 15:10:14 UTC 
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.
Comment 5 Riccardo Schirone 2019-09-12 15:30:49 UTC 
Given a random EAP-pwd token an attacker can learn if all 10 iterations of the compute_password_element() function failed. This happens once every 2048 handshakes and in that case an error frame is sent to the client. This information could be abused by an attacker to brute force the password, as in the Dragonblood attack.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:38:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1672 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1672
Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-04-28 16:33:36 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-13456
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:20:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:3984 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3984
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