vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-37660: hostapd: Public Key Exchange (PKEX) Reuse Vulnerability in hostapd

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Feb 11, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

In hostapd 2.10 and earlier, the PKEX code remains active even after a successful PKEX association. An attacker that successfully bootstrapped public keys with another entity using PKEX in the past, will be able to subvert a future bootstrapping by passively observing public keys, re-using the encrypting element Qi and subtracting it from the captured message M (X = M - Qi). This will result in the public ephemeral key X; the only element required to subvert the PKEX association.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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