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CVE-2010-3697

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3697 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FreeRADIUS 2.1.x before version 2.1.10. Specifically, the "wait_for_child_to_die" function in "main/event.c" fails to properly manage long request queue times during database outages, leading to a daemon crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity with no authentication required, and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:freeradius:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0221 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-3697

freeradius: crash when processing requests queued for more than 30 seconds

May 30, 2010

References

freeradius.org / press/index.html
github.com / alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/ff94dd35673bba1476594299d31ce8293b8bd223
Patch
bugs.freeradius.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/41621
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/10/01/8