vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-14526: Security patch for wpa_supplicant (ALAS-2018-1122)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 8, 2018
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

An issue was discovered in rsn_supp/wpa.c in wpa_supplicant 2.0 through 2.6. Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key messages is not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker within range of the Access Point and client can abuse the vulnerability to recover sensitive information.

Solutions

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Title
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