Access Restriction Bypass Affecting hostapd package, versions [,0.7.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HOSTAPD-2319533
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Jun 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jun 2012

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for hostapd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass 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.

CVSS Scores

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