CVE-2016-4476

Description

hostapd 0.6.7 through 2.5 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 through 2.5 do not reject and characters in passphrase parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a crafted WPS operation.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.61

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
client support for WPA and WPA2 (USN-3455-1) hostapd_2.4-0ubuntu9.1_i386.deb	Linux
client support for WPA and WPA2 (USN-3455-1) hostapd_2.4-0ubuntu9.1_amd64.deb	Linux
client support for WPA and WPA2 (USN-3455-1) wpasupplicant_2.4-0ubuntu6.2_amd64.deb	Linux
client support for WPA and WPA2 (USN-3455-1) wpasupplicant_2.4-0ubuntu9.1_i386.deb	Linux
client support for WPA and WPA2 (USN-3455-1) wpasupplicant_2.4-0ubuntu9.1_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234