Detections
Analytics
CVE-2019-9499
high
Description
The implementations of EAP-PWD in wpa_supplicant EAP Peer, when built against a crypto library missing explicit validation on imported elements, do not validate the scalar and element values in EAP-pwd-Commit. An attacker may complete authentication, session key and control of the data connection with a client. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.4 are affected. Both hostapd with EAP-pwd support and wpa_supplicant with EAP-pwd support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.
References
https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_16
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:03.wpa.asc
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/40
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00021.html