High, CVSS 7.5MavenAmendedPublished
OpenAM: Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via RADIUS Spoofing
CVE-2026-46560 · GHSA-386j-6m86-78f9
- Affected
- Maven org.openidentityplatform.openam:openam-radius < 16.1.1
- Fixed in
- 16.1.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Description An Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CWE-347) issue in OpenAM's RADIUS authentication module allows an unauthenticated network attacker to spoof an Access-Accept response and obtain an OpenAM session for any RADIUS username, without knowing the configured shared secret. This affects OpenAM Community Edition through version 16.0.6 and was patched in version 16.1.1. The RADIUS client opens an unconnected datagram socket and treats the first UDP datagram delivered to its source port as authoritative. The receive path does not check the source IP/port, does not match the response identifier to the outstanding request, and does not verify the Response Authenticator (RFC 2865 §3); the RFC 2869 Message-Authenticator is neither sent nor required. Any non-Reject/non-Challenge packet is treated as success, so a forged Access-Accept is accepted as a valid login. Impact OpenAM Community Edition deployments through version 16.0.6 where an…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 16.1.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.