CVE-2017-13079

medium
Published 2017-10-17 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2) that supports IEEE 802.11w allows reinstallation of the Integrity Group Temporal Key (IGTK) during the four-way handshake, allowing an attacker within radio range to spoof frames from access points to clients.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
53%
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

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.6-6
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed20180825-1
debian debianbullseyefixed20180825-1
debian debianforkyfixed20180825-1
debian debiansidfixed20180825-1
debian debiantrixiefixed20180825-1
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu17.04affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
redhat rhel7affected
freebsd freebsdaffected
freebsd freebsd10affected
freebsd freebsd10.4affected
freebsd freebsd11affected
freebsd freebsd11.1affected
suse suse42.2affected
suse suse42.3affected
suse suse12affected
suse suse11affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
w1.fihostapd0.5.11
w1.fihostapd0.2.4
w1.fihostapd0.2.5
w1.fihostapd0.2.6
w1.fihostapd0.2.8
w1.fihostapd0.3.7
w1.fihostapd0.3.9
w1.fihostapd0.3.10
w1.fihostapd0.3.11
w1.fihostapd0.4.7
w1.fihostapd0.4.8
w1.fihostapd0.4.9
w1.fihostapd0.4.10
w1.fihostapd0.4.11
w1.fihostapd0.5.7
w1.fihostapd0.5.8
w1.fihostapd0.5.9
w1.fihostapd0.5.10
w1.fihostapd0.6.8
w1.fihostapd0.6.9
w1.fihostapd0.6.10
w1.fihostapd0.7.3
w1.fihostapd1.0
w1.fihostapd1.1
w1.fihostapd2.0
w1.fihostapd2.1
w1.fihostapd2.2
w1.fihostapd2.3
w1.fihostapd2.4
w1.fihostapd2.5
w1.fihostapd2.6
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.2.4
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.2.5
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.2.6
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.2.7
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.2.8
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.3.7
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.3.8
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.3.9
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.3.10
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.3.11
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.4.7
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.4.8
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.4.9
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.4.10
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.4.11
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.5.7
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.5.8
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.5.9
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.5.10
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.5.11
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.6.8
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.6.9
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.6.10
w1.fiwpa_supplicant0.7.3
w1.fiwpa_supplicant1.0
w1.fiwpa_supplicant1.1
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.0
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.1
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.2
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.3
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.4
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.5
w1.fiwpa_supplicant2.6

References

CWEs

CWE-323 CWE-330

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

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