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Improper Authentication Affecting hostapd package, versions <2.8-r0

Severity

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0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.18% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE310-HOSTAPD-454753
  • published11 Apr 2019
  • disclosed17 Apr 2019
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Introduced: 11 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-9496  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-642  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 hostapd to version 2.8-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hostapd package and not the hostapd package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

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