SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-9494

The implementations of SAE in hostapd and wpa_supplicant are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns.

MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 3.88%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.88%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The implementations of SAE in hostapd and wpa_supplicant are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns. An attacker may be able to gain leaked information from a side channel attack that can be used for full password recovery. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.

CVSS 3.1
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
3.88% probability · 90th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-208, CWE-524, CWE-203
Affected
w1.fi/hostapd · w1.fi/wpa supplicant · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/backports sle · opensuse/leap · synology/radius server · synology/router manager · freebsd/freebsd
Source
cret@cert.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.