CVE-2017-20161
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.52%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger. Affected is the function dump_wlan_at of the file macgeiger.c of the component ESSID Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The name of the patch is 57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217188.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.52% probability · 44th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-74
- Affected
- macgeiger project/macgeiger
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 0.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/rofl0r/MacGeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cbPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217188Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.217188Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rofl0r/MacGeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cbPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217188Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.217188Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.