CVE-2023-52161

Published: 22 February 2024

The Access Point functionality in eapol_auth_key_handle in eapol.c in iNet wireless daemon (IWD) before 2.14 allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to a protected Wi-Fi network. An attacker can complete the EAPOL handshake by skipping Msg2/4 and instead sending Msg4/4 with an all-zero key.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
iwd Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Needs triage
	mantic	Needs triage
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (2.14-1)
	xenial	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064062

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