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Rocky Linux 9 : wpa_supplicant (RLSA-2024:2517)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 196963

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2024:2517 advisory.

 - The implementation of PEAP in wpa_supplicant through 2.10 allows authentication bypass. For a successful attack, wpa_supplicant must be configured to not verify the network's TLS certificate during Phase 1 authentication, and an eap_peap_decrypt vulnerability can then be abused to skip Phase 2 authentication.
 The attack vector is sending an EAP-TLV Success packet instead of starting Phase 2. This allows an adversary to impersonate Enterprise Wi-Fi networks. (CVE-2023-52160)

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

Solution

Update the affected wpa_supplicant, wpa_supplicant-debuginfo and / or wpa_supplicant-debugsource packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:2517

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2264593

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 196963

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2024-2517.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2024

Updated: 5/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-52160

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:wpa_supplicant, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:wpa_supplicant-debuginfo, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:wpa_supplicant-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-52160