CVE-2018-14526

high

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

8.0

Description

An issue was discovered in rsn_supp/wpa.c in wpa_supplicant 2.0 through 2.6. Under certain conditions, the integrity of EAPOL-Key messages is not checked, leading to a decryption oracle. An attacker within range of the Access Point and client can abuse the vulnerability to recover sensitive information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14526

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14526.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`1:2.6-12`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2:2.6-18`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2:2.6-18`
debian	forky	fixed	`2:2.6-18`
debian	sid	fixed	`2:2.6-18`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2:2.6-18`

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14526.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14526

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