CVE-2020-24588

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 the A-MSDU flag in the plaintext QoS header field is authenticated. Against devices that support receiving non-SSP A-MSDU frames (which is mandatory as part of 802.11n), an adversary can abuse this to inject arbitrary network packets.

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-2020-24588

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24588.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.