CVE•Published 2024-07-09•Modified 2026-05-12•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2024-3596Freeradius · Freeradius
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.0
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
95
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify any valid Response (Access-Accept, Access-Reject, or Access-Challenge) to any other response using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authenticator signature.
Timeline
Published 2024-07-09
Modified 2026-05-12
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag2,198 hosts
vuln:CVE-2024-3596Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Freeradius Freeradius"All exposed Freeradius Freeradius instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Freeradius"HTTP body or banner mentions "Freeradius" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2024-3596Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2024-3596Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2024-3596Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2024-3596GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2024-3596" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.