CVE-2019-9496

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-4`
sid	Fixed	`2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-4`
forky	Fixed	`2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`2:2.7+git20190128+0c1e29f-4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.