Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wpa  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1704-WPA-645602
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed21 Jun 2012

Introduced: 21 Jun 2012

CVE-2012-2389  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

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

hostapd 0.7.3, and possibly other versions before 1.0, uses 0644 permissions for /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information such as credentials.