Vulnerability in Broadcom Sonicos (CVE-2024-3596)
Summary
Vulnerability in Broadcom Sonicos (CVE-2024-3596). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-3596 has been found in Broadcom Sonicos.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 9.0/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Broadcom Sonicos CVE-2024-3596" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-3596 (Broadcom Sonicos) — CWE-354 / CVSS v3 9.0
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-354) exists in Broadcom Sonicos.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Broadcom Sonicos.
Severity: Critical (CVSS 9.0/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Sonicos' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Sonicos' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Sonicosを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2024-3596 freeradius Fixed in: 3.0.27-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-3596 freeradius
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-3596 krb5 Fixed in: 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm6
References
- advisory networkradius.com
- advisory psirt.global.sonicwall.com
- advisory today.ucsd.edu
- advisory security.netapp.com
- ICSA cisa.gov
- JVN JVNDB-2026-017612
- mailing openwall.com
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web datatracker.ietf.org
- web datatracker.ietf.org
- web blastradius.fail
- web security.netapp.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web kb.cert.org
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web github.com
- web datatracker.ietf.org
- web blastradius.fail