CVE-2019-9496

Description

An invalid authentication sequence could result in the hostapd process terminating due to missing state validation steps when processing the SAE confirm message when in hostapd/AP mode. All version of hostapd with SAE support are vulnerable. An attacker may force the hostapd process to terminate, performing a denial of service attack. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

References

https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_16

https://w1.fi/security/2019-3/

https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:03.wpa.asc

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/40

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDOZGR3T7FVO5JSZWK2QPR7AOFIEJTIZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVMJOFEYBGXZLFF5IOLW67SSOPKFEJP3/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/56OBBOJJSKRTDGEXZOVFSTP4HDSDBLAE/

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152914/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-03.wpa.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00021.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3