CVE-2020-24587

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 all fragments of a frame are encrypted under the same key. An adversary can abuse this to decrypt selected fragments when another device sends fragmented frames and the WEP, CCMP, or GCMP encryption key is periodically renewed.

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-2020-24587

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24587.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.