CVE-2020-24586

medium
Published 2021-11-09 · Modified 2021-11-12
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The 802.11 standard that underpins Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA, WPA2, and WPA3) and Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) doesn't require that received fragments be cleared from memory after (re)connecting to a network. Under the right circumstances, when another device sends fragmented frames encrypted using WEP, CCMP, or GCMP, this can be abused to inject arbitrary network packets and/or exfiltrate user data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-4356.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-24586

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24586.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.12.9.hardened1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed20210818-1
debian debianforkyfixed20210818-1
debian debiansidfixed20210818-1
debian debiantrixiefixed20210818-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-1

References

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