Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wpa  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-WPA-628379
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed28 Aug 2017

Introduced: 28 Aug 2017

CVE-2015-0210  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wpa package and not the wpa package as distributed by Ubuntu.

wpa_supplicant 2.0-16 does not properly check certificate subject name, which allows remote attackers to cause a man-in-the-middle attack.