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CVE-2024-3596VulnerabilityPublished Updated

Red Hat Security Advisory: freeradius:3.0 security update

Affects Red Hat freeradius:3.0Source GCVE Database

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 15:19 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 31 Jul 2024

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 5 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released updated FreeRADIUS 3.0 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 that fix this vulnerability. Users should apply the security update as described in the Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2024:4936) and the referenced article (https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258) to remediate the issue. No additional mitigations are indicated beyond applying the official patch.

Description

A security update for FreeRADIUS 3.0 addresses a vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-3596, which involves a forgery attack. FreeRADIUS is a widely used RADIUS server for centralized network authentication and authorization. The issue has been rated as important by Red Hat Product Security and affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 across multiple architectures. A security fix is available in updated packages provided by Red Hat.

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