The implementations of SAE and EAP-pwd in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 2.x through 2.8 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of…

Description

The implementations of SAE and EAP-pwd in hostapd and wpa_supplicant 2.x through 2.8 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns when Brainpool curves are used. An attacker may be able to gain leaked information from a side-channel attack that can be used for full password recovery.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-203 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-203 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=147bf7b88a9c231322b5b574263071ca6dbb0503 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=cd803299ca485eb857e37c88f973fccfbb8600e5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4098-1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2019-97e9040197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• DSA-4538 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 20190929 [SECURITY] [DSA 4538-1] wpa security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 23:49 UTC.