CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53540

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-10-04 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-10-04
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: reject auth/assoc to AP with our address If the AP uses our own address as its MLD address or BSSID, then clearly something's wrong. Reject such connections so we don't try and fail later.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.32 < 6.1.55) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.5)

References