The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2911 advisory.

    The wpa_supplicant packages contain an 802.1X Supplicant with support for WEP, WPA, WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i /     RSN), and various EAP authentication methods. They implement key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator for     client stations and controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication and association of the WLAN     driver.

    Security Fix(es):
    * A new exploitation technique called key reinstallation attacks (KRACK) affecting WPA2 has been     discovered. A remote attacker within Wi-Fi range could exploit these attacks to decrypt Wi-Fi traffic or     possibly inject forged Wi-Fi packets by manipulating cryptographic handshakes used by the WPA2 protocol.
    (CVE-2017-13077, CVE-2017-13078, CVE-2017-13080, CVE-2017-13087)

    Red Hat would like to thank CERT for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Mathy Vanhoef     (University of Leuven) as the original reporter of these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 6 : wpa_supplicant (RHSA-2017:2911)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103958

Version 3.20

Version 3.19

Version 3.20 Feb 18, 2025, 11:54 PM Plugin metadata (CVSS 3 Change AC:H --> AC:L where needed) Plugin Feed: 202502182354
Version 3.19 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2017-13077") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411051250