CVE-2020-26141

medium
Published 2021-11-09 ยท Modified 2021-11-09
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in the ALFA Windows 10 driver 6.1316.1209 for AWUS036H. The Wi-Fi implementation does not verify the Message Integrity Check (authenticity) of fragmented TKIP frames. An adversary can abuse this to inject and possibly decrypt packets in WPA or WPA2 networks that support the TKIP data-confidentiality protocol.

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 SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
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arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Fixed 5.12.9.hardened1-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 5.10.46-1
sid Fixed 5.10.46-1
forky Fixed 5.10.46-1
bullseye Fixed 5.10.46-1
bookworm Fixed 5.10.46-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed โ€”

References

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

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