{"id":"CVE-2019-9499","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-9499","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:17:46.889Z","title":"The implementations of EAP-PWD in wpa_supplicant EAP Peer, when built against a crypto library missing explicit validation on imported elements, do not validate the scalar and element values in EAP-pwd-Commit.","description":"The implementations of EAP-PWD in wpa_supplicant EAP Peer, when built against a crypto library missing explicit validation on imported elements, do not validate the scalar and element values in EAP-pwd-Commit. An attacker may complete authentication, session key and control of the data connection with a client. Both hostapd with SAE support and wpa_supplicant with SAE support prior to and including version 2.4 are affected. Both hostapd with EAP-pwd support and wpa_supplicant with EAP-pwd support prior to and including version 2.7 are affected.","published":"2019-04-17T14:29:04.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:43:50.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cret@cert.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-346","CWE-287"],"affected":["w1.fi/hostapd","w1.fi/wpa supplicant","fedoraproject/fedora","opensuse/backports sle","opensuse/leap","debian/debian linux","synology/radius server","synology/router manager","freebsd/freebsd"],"epss":{"score":0.02215,"percentile":0.82509,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00021.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00030.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/56OBBOJJSKRTDGEXZOVFSTP4HDSDBLAE/","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVMJOFEYBGXZLFF5IOLW67SSOPKFEJP3/","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDOZGR3T7FVO5JSZWK2QPR7AOFIEJTIZ/","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/40","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:03.wpa.asc","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://w1.fi/security/2019-4/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_16","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00021.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00030.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/56OBBOJJSKRTDGEXZOVFSTP4HDSDBLAE/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVMJOFEYBGXZLFF5IOLW67SSOPKFEJP3/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TDOZGR3T7FVO5JSZWK2QPR7AOFIEJTIZ/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/40","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:03.wpa.asc","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://w1.fi/security/2019-4/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_16","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9499","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}