CVE-2020-26139

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

Description

An issue was discovered in the kernel in NetBSD 7.1. An Access Point (AP) forwards EAPOL frames to other clients even though the sender has not yet successfully authenticated to the AP. This might be abused in projected Wi-Fi networks to launch denial-of-service attacks against connected clients and makes it easier to exploit other vulnerabilities in connected clients.

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-2020-26139

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26139.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.12.9.hardened1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.10.46-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.10.46-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.10.46-1
debian debiansidfixed5.10.46-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.10.46-1

References

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