Improper Authentication Affecting freebsd package, versions [11.0,11.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.16% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2382968
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed17 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-9498  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-346  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 11.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. The implementations of EAP-PWD in hostapd EAP Server, when built against a crypto library missing explicit validation on imported elements, do not validate the scalar and element values in EAP-pwd-Commit. An attacker may be able to use invalid scalar/element values to complete authentication, gaining session key and network access without needing or learning the password. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.4 are affected. Both hostapd with EAP-pwd support and wpa_supplicant with EAP-pwd support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

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