Red Hat Security Advisory: freeradius:3.0 security update
Affects Red Hat freeradius:3.0Source GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 5 Nov 2026, 15:19 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 31 Jul 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by 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.