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Cisco IOS RADIUS Authentication Security Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA15850
Release Date: 2005-06-30
Last Update: 2005-07-12
Popularity: 10,869 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Cisco IOS 12.x
Cisco IOS R12.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco IOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass RADIUS authentication.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) RADIUS authentication method making it possible to bypass it by supplying an overly long username.

Successful exploitation bypasses the RADIUS authentication.

The vulnerability only affects devices running the following version of Cisco IOS and configured with a RADIUS authentication and a fallback method to "none" with "local" or no other method in between:
* 12.2T based trains
* 12.3 based trains
* 12.3T based trains
* 12.4 based trains

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