CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-4476

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-05-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

hostapd 0.6.7 through 2.5 and wpa_supplicant 0.6.7 through 2.5 do not reject \n and \r characters in passphrase parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via a crafted WPS operation.

Affected configurations

• w1.fi hostapd (>= 0.6.7 <= 2.5) • w1.fi wpa supplicant (>= 0.6.7 <= 2.5) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References