CVE-2008-5230

medium

Description

The Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) implementation in unspecified Cisco products and other vendors' products, as used in WPA and WPA2 on Wi-Fi networks, has insufficient countermeasures against certain crafted and replayed packets, which makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt packets from an access point (AP) to a client and spoof packets from an AP to a client, and conduct ARP poisoning attacks or other attacks, as demonstrated by tkiptun-ng.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32164

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a0080a30036.html

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=tkiptun-ng

http://radajo.blogspot.com/2008/11/wpatkip-chopchop-attack.html

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2008-November/005413.html

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/wpa-cracked.ars

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-11-25

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01114