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CVE-2024-3596

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2024-07-09
  • WeaknessCWE-354 · CWE-924

Am I affected?

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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

dates in UTC
  1. 2024-07-0912:15CVE publishedNVD
  2. 2026-10-2319:23First public proof of conceptPoC-in-GitHub
  3. 2026-10-2319:23EPSS crossed 10 %FIRST EPSS

Observed activity

isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTC
Indicators tagged with this CVE, per day0 indicators over 7 days
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Versions per branch

NVD
Broadcom brocade sannav
BranchAffectedFixed in
—all versionsno fix published
Broadcom fabric operating system
BranchAffectedFixed in
—all versionsno fix published
Freeradius
BranchAffectedFixed in
3.0< 3.0.273.0.27

2 more products in the sources.

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Distribution builds and vendor advisories

Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.

version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.

Vendor advisories

  • ICSA-26-160-01 CISA3 known affected

    Schneider Electric Modicon Network Managed Switches

    Connexium Managed Switches All Versions · Modicon Managed Switches All Versions · Modicon Redundancy Switches All Versions

  • ICSA-26-036-05 CISA2 known affected

    Hitachi Energy XMC20

    XMC20 version R18 · XMC20 version R17A and earlier

  • ICSA-26-036-06 CISA2 known affected

    Hitachi Energy FOX61x

    FOX61x version R18 · FOX61x version R17A and earlier

  • ICSA-25-350-03 CISA11 known affected

    Hitachi Energy AFS, AFR and AFF Series

    Hitachi Energy AFS 660-B/C/S: vers:all/* · Hitachi Energy AFS 665-B/S: vers:all/* · Hitachi Energy AFS 670 v2.0: vers:all/* · +8 more

  • ICSA-25-135-05 CISA53 known affected

    Siemens SIPROTEC and SICAM

    CPC80 Central Processing/Communication · CPCI85 Central Processing/Communication · POWER METER SICAM Q100 family · +50 more

  • RHSA-2024:10852 Red Hat Product Security1 product fixed

    Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.16.0 - Red Hat OpenShift AI

1 more advisory

Full record on NVD

Fix

  1. Vendor fix CISA ICSA-26-036-05 · 1 productUpdate to XMC20 R18 and then enable the RADIUS Message-Authenticator option in both the XMC20 and RADIUS server configurations. Refer to the Technical User Documentation at https://publisher.hitachienergy.com/preview?DocumentID=1KHW029001&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=R18&Action=launch.
  2. Vendor fix CISA ICSA-26-036-06 · 1 productUpdate to FOX61x R18, then enable the RADIUS Message-Authenticator option in both the FOX61x and RADIUS Server configurations. Refer to the Technical User Documentation at https://publisher.hitachienergy.com/preview?DocumentID=1KHW029042&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=R18&Action=launch.
  3. Vendor fix CISA ICSA-25-350-03 · 6 productsAFR 677, AFS 650, AFS 655, AFS 670, AFS 675, AFS 677: Command to enable Message Authenticator option: For AFS65x, AFS67x, AFR67x CLI: radius server msgauth MIB: hmAgentRadiusServerMsgAuth
  4. Vendor fix CISA ICSA-25-350-03 · 5 productsAFF 660, AFF 665, AFS 660-B/C/S, AFS 665-B/S, AFS 670: Command to enable Message Authenticator option: For AFS66x, AFS670 v2.0, AFF66x CLI: radius server auth modify msgauth MIB: hm2AgentRadiusServerMsgAuth
  5. Vendor fix CISA ICSA-25-135-05 · 36 productsUpdate to V10.0 or later version
  6. Vendor fix CISA ICSA-25-135-05 · 1 productUpdate to V16.51 or later version

Detection

read 2026-10-23 19:24 UTC
Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof-of-concept repositories
1 repository, unverifiedalperenugurlu/CVE-2024-3596-Detector
PoC-in-GitHub

Sources

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2024-07-09
Last Modified
2026-10-15
NVD status
Modified

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3596?

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.

Is CVE-2024-3596 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2024-3596 has not been confirmed. Its EPSS score was 14.9% on 2026-10-22, the estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-3596?

CVE-2024-3596 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9 (CRITICAL severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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