of the `Blast-RADIUS vulnerability <https://www.blastradius.fail>`__
(`CVE-2024-3596 <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3596>`__).
-To summary when the infrastructure between the RADIUS client
-(here the Kea DHCP server) and the RADIUS server is not protected
+To summarize, when the infrastructure between the RADIUS client
+(here the Kea DHCP server) and the RADIUS server is not protected,
a man-in-the-middle attacker can forge a valid accept message in
response to a failed access / authentication request.
Some RADIUS servers including the popular FreeRADIUS server already
-refuse by default to server requests which are considered as insecure
-because not protected using the Message-Authenticator attribute (based
+refuse by default to serve requests which are considered insecure because they
+are not protected using the Message-Authenticator attribute (based
on HMAC-MD5 so not vulnerable and supported by Kea 3.1.5) so even when
-the infrastructure is protected RADIUS deployment is impacted by
+the infrastructure is protected, the RADIUS deployment is impacted by
Blast-RADIUS.
The planned (for Kea release 3.1.6) solution is to support
-RADIUS/TLS which provides a built-in cryptographic protection
-of communications between RADIUS clients and servers.
+RADIUS/TLS which provides a built-in cryptographic protection
+of communication between RADIUS clients and servers.
.. _radius-overview: