CVE-2022-41859: Freeradius

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In freeradius, the EAP-PWD function compute_password_element() leaks information about the password which allows an attacker to substantially reduce the size of an offline dictionary attack.

Affected products

• Freeradius Freeradius: before 3.0.0 (fixed in 3.0.0)

Published 2023-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.