User Impersonation Affecting hostapd package, versions [0,2.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HOSTAPD-2319511
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed12 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16275  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-346  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade hostapd to version 2.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to User Impersonation hostapd before 2.10 and wpa_supplicant before 2.10 allow an incorrect indication of disconnection in certain situations because source address validation is mishandled. This is a denial of service that should have been prevented by PMF (aka management frame protection). The attacker must send a crafted 802.11 frame from a location that is within the 802.11 communications range.

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