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Red Hat: CVE-2020-26139: CVE-2020-26139 kernel: Forwarding EAPOL from unauthenticated wifi client (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 11, 2021
Added
Nov 10, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the kernel in NetBSD 7.1. An Access Point (AP) forwards EAPOL frames to other clients even though the sender has not yet successfully authenticated to the AP. This might be abused in projected Wi-Fi networks to launch denial-of-service attacks against connected clients and makes it easier to exploit other vulnerabilities in connected clients.

Solutions

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