Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-41860

High

Published: 17 January 2023

Published
17 January 2023
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0038 59.9th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-41860 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Freeradius Freeradius. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In freeradius, when an EAP-SIM supplicant sends an unknown SIM option, the server will try to look that option up in the internal dictionaries. This lookup will fail, but the SIM code will not check for that failure. Instead, it…

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will dereference a NULL pointer, and cause the server to crash.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

freeradius
freeradius
0.9.3 — 3.0.25

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References